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Bible Healing Prayer Book 



AUTHORITATIVE COMPENDIUM 

of the Gospel of Bible Healing. A sufficient hand- 
book, if mastered by a consecrated soul, for the 
understanding and the dissemination of this in- 
spiring movement of the church to build a holy 
life, and through its harmony to gain health, 
happiness and prosperity. It is for the 
seeker, and the patient himself, as much 
as anybody, and in the daily Devotion, 
if he will meditate upon, and de- 
clare it earnestly and often, it 
will replace a thousand medi- 
cine cases 



PUBLISHED BY 

BIBLE HEALING PRINT 

International Committee of The Churches 
New York 






Issued and Copyrighted, 1922 

By 

CHAPLAIN SAMUEL BENSON, Ph. D. 

Author of the Bible Healing Books 

Founder and President, Bible Healing Institute 

365 Manhattan Avenue, New York City 

One of the Founders of the Bible Healing Movement 

Bible Healing Lecturer, .City Temple, London. 1922 

President 

International Committee on Bible Healing 

Also Eastern Secretary, American Bible Society, etc. 



DEC 15 22 



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INDEX 



Prefatory Note 



1 

SECTION I. 
THE TEACHING: 

1. Healing- Testimony of Ancient Judaism . 11 

2. Bible Healing- in the Atonement of Christ 24 

3. Prevalence in the Early Church . . 35 

4. Healing Testimony of Great Modern Minds 40 

5. Bible Study of Sickness and Healing . 45 

6. Hidden From the Wise — Revealed Unto 

Babes 50 

7. Gathering Momentum . . . . .55 

8. No Hopeless Cases 58 

9. Objection and Instruction . . .61 
10. Technique for the Ministry of Bible 

Healing 66 

SECTION II. 
THE SERVICES: 

1. Service for Public Worship . . .75 

2. Service for Baptism . . . -. 77 

3. Service of Holy Communion 

4. Service for Marriage 

5. Service for Healing Intercession 

6. Service of Dedication for Ministry . . 89 

7. Service for Funerals 94 

8. Service of Reception into Membership . 97 

9. Service of Healing Hymns . . . 101 
10. Service Sermon Outlines . . . . 121 

SECTION III. 
THE DEVOTIONS: 

1. Public Scripture Reading with Prayer . 133 

2. Personal Scripture Reading with Prayer . 178 

3. Topical Scripture Reading with Prayer . 230 

4. Sundry Prayers, The Master Key, Etc. . 261 

SECTION IV. 

THE PSALTER 273 

I. Psalms 

a) Morning Prayers 

b) Evening Prayers 



PREFATORY NOTE 



npHIS Book of Prayer, an outgrowth of the 
-*■ Bible Healing movement holds out an aid; 
offering inspiration and a challenge, to every 
person professing Christianity. This takes in 
the church; and clergy too. It takes in students 
for the ministry; and indeed all who desire to 
follow Jesus. The life-spirit of Jesus is written 
plainly in the Bible. But we encounter the 
tragic fact that organized religion has had a 
woeful misconception of Christianity and cannot 
without virtual self-delusion, claim to have fol- 
lowed Jesus. The Bible invariably represents 
Him aside from preaching the Kingdom, as 
healing the sick that He met up with and 
without a question of the possibility of it, as 
carefully commanding His followers never to 
neglect it. But sadly nonetheless, they have neg- 
lected it. Many churches indolently neglect it 
today, and many ministers practically ignore it 
— though not all. That is why this movement and 
this book are called into being, and the Supreme 
Proposal of this Bible Healing movement is to aid 
and challenge the courage and endeavor, of 
those who will now follow Jesus, whatever be 
their name or denomination, in the great con- 
ception of the two-fold gospel — Preaching the 
Kingdom, and Healing the sick — as He held it; 
which surely would not be gainsaid. 



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The Bible Healing movement of today is 
the one articulate voice of this vital inter- 
denominational Christian Healing activity, 
which is nothing less than infinite in its possi- 
bilities. It is God's own system; and His plan is 
infallible. The Lord has distinctly commanded 
the work, and the main object of this movement 
is to obey Him, and to restore the healing ministry 
in Christ's Church. 

The zero hour has arrived, in organized reli- 
gion. Christianity now enters its new phase 
and development. Bible Healing strikes the 
note for which this age has been breathlessly 
listening. It is weary of war and turmoil and 
hatred — in the state, and sick of selfishness, 
smugness and hypocrisy — in the Church. It is 
shell-shocked and shattered and rent asunder, 
and it wants peace and healing. That is to say. 
it wants Love; and it will have it. The age and 
the race will have it ! The only question is 
who will furnish it? Will the Church of 
Christ grasp its opportunity and now demon- 
strate the unlimited power of prayer, — in heal- 
ing? We believe she will. That is what the 
present work hopes for. It designs to inspire 
the followers of Christ in the world, to give 
the real peace and the real healing to the 
people, as the Bible offers it. This is the 
church's great opportunity to retrieve the pre- 
cious years, and to save to herself the scores of 
thousands who are streaming into various cults 
and isms and mental religions which are offer- 



PREFATORY NOTE 7 

ing healing of soul and body, as the church her- 
self ought to offer it if she still makes even a 
pretense of following Christ or obeying Him. 
He insistently commands it. He continually 
practised it Himself, and His adherents also 
followed His example for several centuries. 

The present definite revival has grown up and 
spread spontaneously from a group of earnest 
people of different denominations who had 
prayed or practised, thought, read or written 
upon the subject, and from which the larger 
movement developed. 

The Bible itself is the one absolute authority; 
herein the Lord has provided a definite program 
for the Healing Ministry, including public heal- 
ing services; and a system for the private use 
of those who are suffering, and who can here- 
with practise self-healing. The habit of reading 
the Scripture daily will also in itself be of un- 
told benefit. 

This Bible Healing ministry is indisputably 
one of the primary features in the program of 
Christianity. Its policy is quite safe and sane, 
as it is based upon God's Eternal Word. 
Every evangelical Minister, or religious 
student who feels his achievement cramped and 
futile, and who desires to count more for the 
Lord, ought to take this movement up and 
practice it. He may be assured that the in- 
crease in his usefulness will be a hundred-fold. 
Surely we can make no mistake in the principle 
of it. The gospel of Christ advocates this min- 



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istry. Preach the gospel, heal the sick — is 
sounded forth with almost monotonous insist- 
ence in the Bible. 

Further; hungering, yearning or suffering 
souls — who have heretofore despaired of joy 
or health, will find in Bible Healing the greatest 
help both for soul and for body. Bible Healing 
accepts as absolute the old Testament promise, 
"I am the Lord that healeth thee," (Exo. 15: 
26) and the New Testament promise, "These 
signs shall follow them that believe . . . 
they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall 
recover." (Mark 16: 16). 

And Jno. 14: 14, "If ye shall ask anything in 
my name, I will do it." 

With these precious and eternal promises 
from the Lord Himself, His church possesses 
a power which we believe can transform the 
sombre conditions of this present world into a 
veritable heaven on earth. May she as His 
true ambassador, now make the most of her 
opportunity! 



SECTION I. 



The Teaching 



TESTIMONY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM 11 



BIBLE HEALING PRAYER BOOK 

CHAPTER I. 
Healing Testimony of Ancient Judaism 

"I am the Lord thy Healer." Ex. 15-26 

T*HE Bible is, above all else, the Eternal Book 
■*■ of Healing, just as Jehovah is the Eternal 
God of Healing. The greatest need of humanity 
is this very healing. We all require healing of 
body and of soul. If humanity then, shall come 
into the right relationship, acceptance, and 
understanding of this great Author and this 
great Book, the need of healing will be met and 
satisfied completely, — its highest' happiness in 
earth or heaven will have been attained; namely, 
health of body and of soul. 

Accordingly, from the Scripture itself, the 
system of Bible Healing has been culled out, 
and here set forth; a system which is infallible, 
and always succeeds when the conditions are 
fulfilled. The results are as sure as God Him- 
self. His promise and His character are the 
guarantee we have. 

Through all the ages of Scriptural history 
God has demonstrated His healing power, and 
the wondrous deeds and lives of the faithful 
attest that He has been their Healer and Physi- 
cian. From beginning to end, the Bible shows 
how God directly heals the body as well as the 
soul through faith and prayer, and we are pro- 
ceeding solely on this claim. 

Furthermore, ye multitudes, to whom this 
Bible Healing message will appeal as funda- 
mental truth, you will have courage and strength 
in the absolute confidence that you also belong to 
Him. 



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Many earnest supporters of the Church, of 
late, have become concerned over an apparent 
indifference to the daily needs of people in the 
life that now is. The Church for so many 
centuries, aided by clergy and priesthood 
inculcated the platitude that "God wants 
your soul" and "the Lord delights in a 
joyous emancipated surrendered spirit,"' that 
the people of the world as well as the peo- 
ple of the Church had come to believe that this 
was an end of it, and to conceive that the church 
existed for this alone. The oratorical, verbal, 
preaching of righteousness seemed to be the 
only objective of the Church, and the only 
enterprise in which she purposed or pretended 
to engage. But verbal preaching is not the 
only business of the real Church of God. Not 
by any means! Rhetorical effort is not the 
only duty of religion and never has been its 
only duty in spite of the fact that it is the only 
one that organized religion has accepted, re- 
cognized or performed in any universal way, 
and the time has come at last, when in many 
cases the people themselves have gone ahead 
of even the priesthood or the clergy in their 
study and application of the Great Book of 
Religion, and have answered back to the 
Church and clergy that, "if God wants your 
soul, He also wants your body." "If the Lord 
delights in a joyous emancipated surrendered 
Spirit, He just as plainly and just as ardently 
delights in a joyous emancipated surrendered 
body also." The Word of God Himself tells 
us this. To those who have not considered the 
subject, this position and statement may seem 
sweeping and dangerous, but when one re- 
examines the Bible, with this thought in view, 
he invariably finds it to be simply saturated 
with this, the Healing Gospel, — and this Heal- 



TESTIMONY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM 13 

ing Gospel for the Body. Numbers of desperate 
' and often ludicrous attempts have been made 
to spiritualize, aerialize, or explain away, every 
Scripture reference to physical healing and 
every deed of bodily cure. Many such are set 
plainly forth in the Bible in words which 
should not be misunderstood by any intel- 
ligent student. But some way, habit gets tena- 
cious hold upon us, and we take the line of least 
resistance, both in thinking and in action, and 
the centuries of race-thought and custom, al- 
though at times mistaken, are extremely diffi- 
cult for us to shake off, even though as indivi- 
duals we may mentally recognize the error in 
such thought and practice. 

If the Church today is really founded upon 
God, and His Word, then we are face to face 
with this dilemma of logical consistency. 
Either turn we take we needs must change our 
ways. The Church must either take up and 
embrace this great neglected portion of reli- 
gion — or else it would appear the Church is 
virtually discarding the Word of God, from the 
place of the sanctuary, — for as sure as the 
Scripture is true, Bible Healing seems to be an 
essential and persistent and undownable part 
and parcel of the Book of Books. And the 
Church and the clergy are facing the answer to 
the question, "Is the Bible to be believed and 
followed, or not?" The answer must come 
soon, because multitudes of cults and isms are 
springing up on every side, and by use of the 
dynamic of that very Bible, which these pepole 
are affirming to be true, they are drawing away 
the good and regular members of the Church, 
not only by the thousands, but by the tens of 
thousands. Thus, they challenge the Church. 
Ay, they rebuke the Church. They place us 
where we can no longer straddle the fence. We 



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must accept the whole gospel or we weaken it 
all. 

It is for this reason that the present work and 
treatise is ushered in; namely, to make it mani- 
fest by the internal evidence of the Book itself, 
that it is primarily a Healing Book, the Word 
of God — the Healer, than which there is none 
other, and therefore, the summum bonura of 
a suffering, agonizing humanity in physical 
bondage and pain — as well as spiritual. 

The lessons of this Book are in every case 
grouped about the central truth, and founded 
on the basic fact expressed in the words, "I 
am the Lord thy Healer," Ex. 15-26. (Original 
Hebrew, Jehovah-Ropha) or as translated, 
"The Lord that healeth thee." 

We are now commencing a solemn search to 
see whether the Bible teaches that God does 
heal His children. We are examining the pages 
of God's Word itself, to really find out whether 
He invariably desires us to trust Him for 
Healing. We are investigating as with a micro- 
scope, a religious field which though it has been 
so frequently neglected by the modern church 
that it is practically forgotten, yet it is still 
a vital issue and is destined to be heard from 
mightily. It is an issue so full of vitality 
that it can hardly longer be ignored. Is 
it too much to hope or ask that if the 
reader or the student should perchance upon 
investigation be convinced that Bible Healing is 
a fundamental doctrine of the Scripture; that 
salvation of soul and healing of body do go 
hand in hand, and that both are absolutely re- 
quired in the full teaching of this Book — he 
should go forth and practise it and preach it at 
whatever cost? Is this too much? "If ye 
know these things happy are ye, if ye do them," 
says the Great Teacher in the Great Book. It 



TESTIMONY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM 15 

is the one and only answer to the riddle of 
life. 

Otherwise we deny the Fountain of Life. 
If one be not willing to follow the truth, and 
to be guided by the light; to go where God 
leads him through the compelling power of His 
Word, then he may as well go no further now, 
for his conscience will be made uneasy and his 
life uncomfortable. Glory ineffable waits that 
soul — and power and joy and prosperity and 
salvation and healing — who will persist and 
follow truth. 

In the very first book of the Bible God shows 
His Healing Power. "In the beginning God." 
He shewed it to the first man whoever prayed 
to Him in faith and worshipped Him in sin- 
cerity and in truth. That man was Abraham. 
And strange coincidence as it might appear, 
that first worshipper was named the Father of 
the Faithful. Without faith it is impossible to 
please God. But with faith we not only please 
Him, but we become partakers of all His bless- 
ings and all His benefits. God says, "Ask and 
it shall be given you." "All things whatsoever 
ye shall ask in prayer believing, ye shall re- 
ceive." Abraham believed. He was essentially 
a man of faith. Consequently he obtained 
promises, — and surely it is significant, that way 
back here in Genesis, in the first book of the 
Bible, and with the first faithful Jehovah- 
worshipper in the whole world, that God Him- 
self should be the one who healed, and who 
did it directly, instead of counselling resort to 
earthly physicians, or medicine, if any such 
thing existed in that day. Long before the 
great prophet Moses led his people out of bond- 
age in Egypt — yes — long before those people 
were even in bondage, that primitive-minded, 
simple, spiritual, faithful man, Abraham, had 
the vision and the courage to pray to God in 



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time of need, and thus he made the first dis- 
covery that the outcome of prayer actually was 
"according to your faith, so be it unto you." 
Thus the first place that the word Healing is 
ever mentioned in the Bible, is in connection 
with Abraham and Abimelech. When Abraham 
was journeying from Ur of Chaldea, he was 
traveling toward the south, and finally he came 
upon the little principality of Gerar, over which 
a prince by the name of Abimelech was the 
local king. But on account of certain sin in 
his life, Abimelech was stricken with an afflic- 
tion and he was sorely disconcerted. He and 
Abraham had become acquainted. In the afflic- 
tion of the King, this man of supreme faith, 
this Father of the Faithful of the world, talked 
again to God and asked the Lord that his new 
acquaintance, King Abimelech, might be healed 
of his affliction, and God answered the effectual 
fervent prayer of the righteous man. As we 
are told in the 20th chapter of Genesis, the 
17th verse, Abraham prayed unto God, and God 
healed Abimelech. What now can the doubter 
say? What can the skeptic answer who main- 
tains that the Lord granted healing only in the 
days of Jesus and His apostles; and only then 
because of the special necessity of giving stimu- 
lus and authority to His new religion? This 
was four thousand years before the Christian 
Era. He will surely be compelled to find some 
better argument than this. The Bible holds 
God heals out of love and that continually. 
Abimelech was afflicted, Abraham prayed unto 
God, and God healed Abimelech. All kinds of 
arguments, excuses, and evasions will be met 
with, and the scoffer or the skeptic can always 
move from one untenable point to another, but 
the fact still remains that whether it was in the 
case of a plague or a pestilence, a famine or a 
disease, an affliction of the body or the soul; 



TESTIMONY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM 17 

right from the very entrance and beginning of 
this divine revelation of God's power and love 
to His people, we are promised and repeatedly 
told that He did heal His people and He will 
heal His people whenever they call upon Him 
in prayer and faith, and when they keep His 
Commandments — regardless of whether the 
healing they need, be of body or of soul! Re- 
peatedly these two are put on equal ground, 
and the blessing equally promised. God's 
blessings are all appropriated by faith. And 
this case of Abraham is most inspiring, not 
alone because it proves from the beginning that 
God does answer the prayer of faith and does 
heal the body directly, but because it shows 
also the unselfishness of the prayer of faith. 
Moses was not here even asking anything for 
himself. He was willing to pray for this other 
man who was almost an enemy and stranger, 
and had done him a wrong. And God is ever 
willing and anxious, as this Book will little by 
little reveal, to answer and fulfill the generous 
wholehearted believing prayer. 

But we need not dwell long upon the book 
of Genesis, because the whole of the Penta- 
teuch or body of the law, is just as clear and 
positive upon the subject. Bible Healing stands 
out in just as bold relief in the lives of all of 
the great religious leaders, and the glorious 
fact of it can scarcely be evaded. That God 
was the Physician of the people of the Bible, 
cannot be genuinely or sincerely denied. In 
the only two or three times that the use of 
other physicians is mentioned in the entire Bible 
it seems to be shown in even a displeasing and 
unfavorable light. See II Chron., 16: 12; Mark 
5: 25, Luke 8: 43. 

In the unfolding of God's providence in the 
Bible, we find the next book — the Exodus — or 
the going out from Egypt — to set forth the 



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most important event in the life of the Jewish 
nation. Abraham has passed on. The promi- 
nent figure now, is Moses. For many a long 
year, yes and decade, this heroic man is not 
alone God's onl}^ emancipator and saviour to 
the people, but He is also God's only human in- 
strument in the Healing of the people, and 
this through faith and prayer alone.* Their 
idea of God was so vague and hazy that 
they had difficulty in grasping the conception 
of Jehovah, and consequently He had Moses 
to stand in His stead, thus to be their Saviour 
and their Healer. When they left the shores 
of the Red Sea, just after their miraculous de- 
liverance from the oppressive hand of the 
Egyptians, they found themselves directly in 
the wilderness of Shur, — a hot and barren 
desert of sand and drought. This conglomer- 
ate army of travelers for three long days and 
nights could find no water, and they had no 
bread. They were famishing of thirst. And 
finally they came to a place called Marah, and 
there at last they found water. Ah, yes, water! 
but when they tasted it, it was poison, foul, and 
bitter water, — and the people were sick, fainting 
and dying. What an irony was that, and what 
a mockery! Water that they could not drink, 
when perishing of thirst! But here God's 
emancipator knows the heavenly secret; and 
without hesitation he asks the Lord in faith for 
guidance and deliverance and a solution to his 
problem, and God immediately commanded him 
to take a tree and cast it into the waters; and 
that obedient man of faith cast the tree into 
the bitter waters of Marah, — and they became 
sweet; and thus Israel's lives were saved. Is 
there not an infinite significance in the fact that 
the very next verse contains God's wonderful 
assurance and promise, "I am the Lord that 
healeth thee?" Ex. 15: 26. 



TESTIMONY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM 19 

The bitter waters of Marah in the dreary 
wilderness of Shur, are nothing more or less to 
us than emblematical of the dreary barrenness 
of human hopes and mortal life upon this 
earth. If we take things as they are — if we 
look facts in the face, existence is after all a 
pretty sombre thing. Taken by and large, men 
and women too, have fairly little in this life to 
be exuberant over. "Unto the woman, He said, 
'I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy 
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth 
children and thy desire shall be to thy husband, 
and he shall rule over thee.'" Gen. 3: 16. 
"And to Adam He said, 'Cursed is the ground 
for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all 
the days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles 
shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat 
the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face, 
shalt thou eat bread.'" Gen. 3: 17. And it 
ever has been so. 

Passing down the street of any city, and gaz- 
ing upon the human spectacle that it presents 
is a rather grim and saddening experience. 
Even from that dreadful, fearsome hour of 
childbirth, through the years until the coffin 
comes, it is a veritable nightmare. Every other 
face is one of pain. Every tenth man is a crip- 
ple. Numbers even of the boys and girls are 
so pathetically maimed from infantile paralysis 
and spinal meningitis, that they become most 
soul-rending to look upon. The deformed, the 
hunchbacks, the hobbling, limping multitude, 
the blank and sightless eyes, the twisting 
mouth, the palsied hands, — to say nothing of 
the numbers upon numbers who are nursing 
some secret hidden pain or sorrow, some foul 
disease or dreadful remorse, or guilt, — some 
domestic trouble or wretchedness — it is nothing 
less than heart-breaking to any one with a heart 
of human sensibility. On the face of things,' 



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the waters of our human actual experience are 
bitter indeed — bitter as Marah! — the water of 
death, — and the outlook is not hopeful. No, 
if you accept the figures of .the adding machine 
only, the resources will not equal the terrible 
liabilities. God knows the game is hardly worth 
the candle. 

And yet, somehow, from away back yonder 
in Eternity, God always has a tree, — and some- 
how, inscrutable to us, — the leaves of that tree 
are for the healing of the nations, as He said. 
And so, just as Moses found the Marah waters 
sickening, bitter and poison, until at the com- 
mand of God the tree was cast into the waters 
and instantly they became sweet and health- 
giving, pure and life-giving; so into our sin- 
cursed existence, into our dull-gray, sombre 
and embittered lives the only cure or hope of 
healing lies in the same provision as before, 
when from Eternity God provides some Rugged 
Tree, and it is cast into the bitter desolateness 
of human life, the leaves of which are for the 
healing of the nations and the people. Fellow 
traveler; the only hope that you and I possess 
of sweetened life, of pardoned or forgiven 
souls or of restored and joyous bodies lies in 
that great tree of healing! "Cursed is the ground 
for thy sake. Cursed shalt thou be when thou 
comest in and cursed shalt thou be when thou 
goest out," is God's verdict for disobedience 
and sin. Deut. 28: 19. "The Lord shall make 
the pestilence cleave unto thee. The Lord shall 
smite thee with a consumption and with a fever, 
with an inflammation and with an extreme 
burning," Deut. 28: 22. "The Lord shall smite 
thee with madness and blindness and astonish- 
ment of heart, and thou shalt grope at noon- 
day." Deut. 28: 28. "If thou wilt not hearken 
unto the voice of the Lord thy God." Deut. 
28: 15. These are the curses of the law. But 



TPJSTIMONY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM 21 

way over farther in the Book, we read God's 
glad promise that He "hath redeemed us from 
the curse of the law." I am the Lord thy 
healer. "If thou wilt diligently hearken to the 
voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that 
which is right in His eyes, and wilt give ear to 
His commandments and keep all His statutes, 
I will put none of these diseases upon thee, 
which I have put upon the Egyptians, for I am 
the Lord that healeth thee." Ex. 15: 26. All 
these human diseases constitute the age-long 
curse, yes, but He hath redeemed us from the 
curse. As David says in Psalms 103: 3, "He 
forgiveth all thine iniquities, He healeth all thy 
diseases." Beloved, did not God's plan, then, 
provide for both? 

Moving on to Leviticus, the third book of 
the Pentateuch of Moses, we find the same. 
The language here is so formal and so cere- 
monial that it is more difficult to quote the 
passages, which prove beyond a doubt that God 
Himself is the healer and He alone the phy- 
sician of the people — sometimes to be sure, 
through means of His spiritual representative 
the priest — but never through any other means. 
His rule for the cleansing of leprosy was the 
same ceremony as ever; the anointing with oil 
in the name of the Lord, "And the priest shall 
offer the burnt offering, and the meat offering 
upon the altar, and the priest shall make an 
atonement for him, and he shall be clean." 
Lev. 14: 18, 20. This unequivocally means he 
shall be healed. In Lev. 13: 8, in connection 
with a man with boils coming to the priest, the 
terminology used is, "It is healed." The priest 
or the Godly man was the only human means 
used of the Lord. He did the doctoring Him- 
self. He is "The Lord thy healer." And His 
word is the Book of Healing from very begin- 
ning to very end. 



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In the book of Numbers we again have the 
Lord Himself handling the serious case of 
Miriam. The Lord's servant did as He is in- 
variably commanded to do. Moses prayed and 
cried unto Jehovah, saying, "Heal her, Oh God 
I beseech Thee." Numbers 12: 13. And then 
there sounded back to the faithful, righteous 
Moses that promise coming from the Eternal 
Voice, which He had heard beside the bitter 
waters of Marah, "I am the Lord that healeth," 
if thou wilt keep my statues. "Heal her, Oh 
God, I beseech Thee," cried Moses. And Jeho- 
vah shamed Miriam for a time, and she was 
shut up without the camp during that time for 
seven days. And the march was stopped. And 
Miriam was found completely healed of the 
leprosy — and then the camp moved on. Truly, 
the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man 
availeth much, as the Bible says. It has been 
so, as long as man has existed and has been 
true and faithful unto God. That healing Book 
certifies it all. 

In Deuteronomy, the last book of the Penta- 
teuch, relating the last days of Moses' life, we 
find again even more clear and definite assur- 
ances of God's intention and desire to heal His 
righteous children. In this book He distinctly 
states to the righteous ones the blessed words, 
"I heal." Deut. 32: 39. "He will be merciful 
unto His land and to His people." Deut. 32: 
43. 

From these earliest Bible days, all through 
Moses' time, — religious people always believed 
in God, not merely as a Saviour of the soul, but 
also as a Saviour of the body. This was one of 
the most blessed fundamental doctrines of Juda- 
ism, and if God's people have gotten away from 
it today, surely they are the losers. Even 
this earliest portion of the Bible revelation 
strongly and constantly recognizes God, and 



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God only, as Creator, Redeemer and Healer of 
the bodies and the souls of men. Therefore, if 
we believe in that same God and His true and 
Eternal Revelation, we must also accept His 
Word and take up this almost forgotten truth 
and revive and reclaim it, allowing it to once 
again do for us what it did for them, viz: to 
vitalize religion as almost nothing else has 
been able to do in all the centuries of history. 
All the rest of the Old Testament is just as 
full of Bible Healing also as are the Books of 
Moses. 

And so the Pentateuch, the original Book of 
the Law, closes as it opened, with God supreme. 
"And there arose not a prophet since in Israel 
like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to 
face, in all the signs and wonders which the 
Lord sent him to do." Deut. 34: 10. 



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BIBLE HEALING 
IN THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST 



CHAPTER II. 

"He cast out the spirits with His word and 
healed all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled 
which was spoken by Esaias the prophet saying: 
'Himself took our infirmities and bare our sick- 
nesses.'" Matt. 8: 16. 

"C^SAIAS, the prophet, as the voice of God, in 
■*-' his 53rd chapter had said, "He is despised 
and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and ac- 
quainted with grief, and we hid as it were our 
faces from him; he was despised and we 
esteemed him not. Surely, he hath borne our 
grief (literally our sicknesses) and carried our 
sorrows (literally our pains, see Deut. 7: 15; 28: 
6, etc. I Kings 17: 17, etc.), yet we did esteem 
Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But 
he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our 
peace was upon him, and by His stripes we are 
healed." And David the Psalmist had also said, 
"He forgiveth all thine iniquities, he healeth all 
thy diseases." Ps. 103: 3. Paul says: "Christ 
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law," 
Gal. 3: 13. And the curse of the law is sick- 
ness and sin as set forth in Deut. 28: 22. It 
includes consumption, fever, inflammation, 
blindness, and all the diseases of Egypt, which 
are written in the Book, and every sickness and 
every plague which is not written in the Book. 
This includes asthma, pneumonia, and cancer, 
appendicitis, small-pox, lameness and in fact 



BIBLE HEALING IN THE ATONEMENT 25 

any and every disease on earth. When Christ 
redeemed us from the curse of the law, He re- 
deemed us from the whole body of ills that 
flesh is heir to, and from the whole realm of sin 
that doth so easily beset us. Calvary cancelled 
it all. He wants us then to have the results, 
and to receive the benefit. In taking up the 
gospel of Bible Healing, we get our commission 
and authority direct from Calvary's cross, and 
any surrendered soul can get it there. 

The object, therefore, of this study is to 
bring home the clear and unmistakable con- 
viction that God's eternal plan of salvation for 
despairing humanity, has totally and com- 
pletely provided for the two great needs of 
despairing humanity, namely healing for the 
soul and healing for the body. If one deny 
either of these provisions does he not invalidate 
the whole? If he reject one essential does 
he not set aside all of Christ's atonement? 
Obviously, such a weighty statement dare not 
be made without incontrovertible proof. In 
other words, and without placing any peculiar 
or strained constructions upon the 1 matter, if 
Christ's gospel cannot heal the body then can 
it heal the soul either? This position can readily 
be proven from the Bible itself. Moreover, it 
can be definitely proven that the whole Gospel 
of Christ just as insistently demands the heal- 
ing of the body as it does the healing of the 
soul. And it were just as great neglect, Be- 
loved, for the Church of Christ or the follower 
of Christ to ignore this demand of His, as to 
ignore the other. Throughout the entire Bible, 
from beginning to end, there is an apparently 
inseparable connection between healing for the 
body and healing for the soul, as will certainly 
be shown upon re-examination, though in the 
past, it has been deplorably overlooked. 

The Passover Feast, which was the original 



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prototype of the Lord's Supper, and which was 
celebrated on the night of Israel's deliverance 
from Egyptian bondage, required not only the 
sprinkling of the blood of the lamb upon the 
doorposts of the households that were to be 
saved, as a spiritual symbol, but it also re- 
quired the eating of the flesh of the Lamb for 
the physical strengthening and bodily benefit 
of the same people; and that ceremony was 
regularly kept right down through the centur- 
ies. The sacrament of the old dispensation 
became the sacrament of the new. "And the 
Lord Jesus the same night in which He was be- 
trayed, took bread, and when He had given 
thanks He brake it, and said, take, eat this is 
my body which is broken for you." I Cor. 
11: 24. And He took the cup and gave thanks 
and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye, all of it, 
for this is my blood of the New Testament, 
which is shed for many for the remission of 
sins" Matt. 26 : 27. "He f orgiveth all thy iniqui- 
ties (spiritual), he healeth all thy diseases 
(bodily)." What could be more plain? 

"But let a man examine himself; and so let 
him eat of that bread and drink of that cup, for 
he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth 
and drinketh damnation to himself not discern- 
ing the Lord's body; for this cause many are 
weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." 
In other words, because some do not discern 
the Lord's body, that it is broken for their 
body's healing, and His blood, that it is shed 
for their sins' remission, and have not been 
taught their possibility of being healed thus 
completely through Christ, as a consequence 
many are weak and sickly among you and 
many sleep," I Cor. 11: 28. When David said 
in Psalms 103: 3, "Bless the Lord, O my soul 
and forget not all his benefits," he had in mind 
the two great benefits of spiritual healing and of 



BIBLE HEALING IN THE ATONEMENT 27 

physical healing under which all blessings may be 
classified, for he indicated them in the very next 
verse, "who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who 
healeth all thy diseases." But as the Ancient 
Singer would have us not forget, so Christ Him- 
self would also have us ever remember the 
benefits, of the Lord's Supper. "This do in re- 
membrance." My "blood shed for remission, 
my body broken" for healing. 

Therefore, Beloved, we possess the greatest 
Gospel that exists in the universe. We have a 
panacea that will meet the whole need of every 
man and every woman in the world. In His 
wisdom and His foresight God's provision is 
positively perfect and complete. It falls short 
nowhere, and it lacks absolutely nothing! He 
who created the world and man, and holds him 
in the hollow of His hand, slumbereth not nor 
sleepeth, forgeteth not nor faileth, and He has 
not overlooked any of the details of full happi- 
ness for His children, or for their entire wel- 
fare. Strange indeed it would be if the God in 
whom 'we live and move and have our being,' 
God that made the world and all things there- 
in, seeing that he is the Lord of heaven and 
earth, neither is worshipped with men's hands 
as though He needed anything, seeing He 
giveth to all life and breath and all things and 
hath made of one blood all nations of men for to 
dwell on the face of the earth and hath deter- 
mined the times before appointed and 'the bounds 
of their habitation,' strange would it be, if He 
should do all this, and then be totally neglectful 
of that vital element to our happiness and wel- 
fare on this earth, namely, plain, simple health 
in our bodies, which we must always have with 
us and always live with. No, Beloved, it 
could not be. Who could believe in such a 
God? The history of the Great Physician and 
the Infinite Healer is just the reverse of that. 



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He who promised, "I am the Lord thy Healer" 
way back in the times of Moses, has been 
the Lord thy Healer up to the present moment, 
and there is no other. Many are the agencies 
through which He works — but only One 
Healer; and he who denies to God the glory 
of all Healing, spiritual and physical, is not 
worthy to be a disciple. "Thou shalt have no 
other God before me." 

Certainly He is willing and according to 
Scripture, "He is able to save to the uttermost 
all that come." Heb. 7: 25. And it is only be- 
cause they do not come that people are not 
healed of their diseases or forgiven of their 
sins, accepting the promise which if they will 
take in faith and "in prayer believing, ye shall 
receive." 

This phase of the gospel ought to be empha- 
sized in this age just as in the age of the 
apostolic days. It shines forth from every 
page of the life of Christ with dazzling 
brilliancy. It speaks out through every act and 
every sentence of His life as a voice from the 
other world. Like a veritable message from 
the eternal sphere His farewell admonition, to 
the group of faithful followers rings out with 
unmistakable clearness, "Go ye into all the 
world and preach the Gospel * * * and 
these signs shall follow them that believe * * 
* they shall lay hands on the sick, and 
they shall recover." When men preached the 
gospel in the original church they preached the 
whole of it, and no diseased person was ever 
left in perplexed uncertainty as to whether it 
was God's will to heal him. There was an at- 
mosphere of confident faith in this great practice, 
and that atmosphere went a long way in helping 
the afflicted to be healed, just as an atmos- 
phere of faith in God's power and desire of 
forgiveness goes a long way in helping the 



BIBLE HEALING IN THE ATONEMENT 29 

person under the burden of sin to be forgiven. 
More than once Jesus plainly indicated and 
often directly said that it really depended upon 
this quality. "Believe ye that I am able to do 
this?" "According to your Faith, be it unto 
you." Matt. 9: 28, etc. "Thy faith hath saved 
thee, etc." Luke 7: 5; 18: 42. This attitude 
and atmosphere of faith in God's healing, very 
often enabled men and women to be healed 
even without the laying on of hands, without 
anointing, and even without a spoken audible 
prayer. One woman merely touched the hem 
of His garment, and straightway was made 
whole. Matt. 9: 20. And in Acts 5: 14, "Be- 
lievers were the more added to the Lord, multi- 
tudes, both of men and women, insomuch that 
they brought forth the sick into the streets and 
laid them on beds and on couches that at the least 
the shadow of Peter passing by might over- 
shadow some of them. There came also a multi- 
tude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, 
bringing sick folks and them which were vexed 
with unclean spirits, and they were healed every 
one." All of them were healed, without exception ! 
The later deadening conception that the Lord 
enjoys and desires that some people should 
agonize and suffer, that His name might be 
glorified, was not propounded in those thrilling 
days to discourage the suffering one and para- 
lyze the faith of the sick and so prevent the 
Lord from healing them. This atmosphere of 
faith in Bible Healing gave many a non-Chris- 
tian, the confidence to believe and test it: In 
the 14th chapter of Acts, we find a man a crip- 
ple from his mother's womb, who had never 
walked, who had faith to be healed. Paul 
commanded, "Stand upright on thy feet, and 
he leaped and walked." Verse 10. When the 
Gospel of Jesus Christ is fully preached and 
fully understood and believed with all its bless- 



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ings, there is just as much assurance and cer- 
tainty of being healed of disease in body as 
there is of being forgiven or healed of sin in 
soul. Denial of this seems totally untenable; 
and these statements are put forth only on pre- 
ponderant documentary evidence from the 
Bible, and, therefore, should be safe. In- 
deed, if faith and earnest desire have any effect 
on God, it would be even easier to get healing 
of body than healing of soul, for men are more 
anxious to be rid of their suffering than of their 
sins. No teaching in the Bible is more plain 
or insistent than that of healing through Cal- 
vary. No law of God is more dependable or 
unvarying than this law of salvation for body 
as well as soul. If men keep the spiritual law 
it is just as reliable and just as inevitable as any 
law of physics, or of chemistry. It will operate 
every time. It is one hundred per cent effi- 
cient. But we have been neglecting the spir- 
itual law of faith as Jesus announced it, and con- 
sequently have not received the blessings. With 
the bulk of emphasis laid heretofore upon sal- 
vation, or healing of the soul alone, we Chris- 
tians have, of course, believed this part, and 
experienced its truth and benefits,, and almost 
every one, even though not a surrendered Chris- 
tian, believes that he who repents and obeys 
the Lord, will find forgiveness and regeneration. 
But the spiritual law for the healing of the 
body is just as true and as steadfast as the 
spiritual law for the salvation or healing of 
the soul. And what Christ made provision for 
us to have on Calvary is just as available today 
as it ever was, and that is God's gift of newness 
of life, both "in your body and in your spirit, 
which are God's." I. Cor. 6: 20. It is hard to 
evade. It is hard to get away from. One 
would almost be compelled to seal the pages of 
the Bible to ignore it. We can hardly read any 



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evangelist's account of Jesus and His life with- 
out confessing that bodily healing was one-half 
of His Gospel and His work. Matthew, or 
John, Luke or Mark, or even Paul or James or 
Peter, one and all, they all agree that healing 
of the body was a natural accompaniment to 
healing of the soul. 

It is true that one of the greatest reasons why 
so many people are not healed is because they 
do not come in faith believing. But faith 
cometh by hearing Rom. 10: 17. And how shall 
they hear without a preacher? Ay, there's the 
rub. The preacher! Where is the preacher to- 
day who profounds this gospel? Where is the 
preacher who teaches and explains it in all its 
fulness and blessing? Not one out of every 
dozen; or a good deal more. 

Why? No one seems to know. It is simply 
a fact. Perhaps the reason is a self-satisfied 
sufficiency and a settling in a comfortable rut. 
It would seem so. But consequently, the 
people with all their ailing, suffering, afflicted 
and tortured bodies, as well as their despairing, 
agonizing souls have not come to clearly under- 
stand that the cross of Calvary stands abso- 
lutely as a guarantee for their health and happi- 
ness here, as well as for their spiritual holiness, 
now and evermore. And the fault has been all 
too largely with the preacher. Beloved, if the 
Preachers of America be awakened and aroused 
to carry out their moral duty in this regard, 
we shall see loosed a heavenly blessing upon 
this world which has not been ever equalled 
since the day of Pentecost. God grant it ! 

Another reason for the failure of many to 
get healed is because they do not come with a 
great steadfast purpose in their heart. 

While others are having prayer for healing 
there are those who are apt to say something 
like this. "I guess I will have prayer also, I 



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may get healed." That, of course, is of no 
avail. A man under the power of sin could 
never have the faith which is necessary until he 
determines in his heart, like the prodigal son, 
to come to the Father. 

The absolute prerequisite to securing the 
promises of God, either for salvation or for 
healing is a determined attitude of faith and 
trust. When God has some blessing in store 
for us and wills a certain thing for us, then 
we should will the same thing for ourselves, and 
we shall receive "good measure, pressed down, 
shaken together and running over." Luke 6 : 38. 
"No good thing will He withhold from them that 
walk uprightly." Ps. 8:11. It is zve ourselves, 
most frequently who stand in the way of God 
lavishing upon us the good things which He 
possesses. If we step out of the way, He will 
come in mjighty power and blessing. 

A man frequently stands in his own spiritual 
light. And what Christians need to recognize 
is that Christianity has been cut in two, divided 
and parcelled out and that one-half has been 
pushed behind the veil, and the Church and the 
preacher and the other advocates of the gospel 
have fallen short in this respect that they have 
not seen and have not realized the vital im- 
portance and inherent value of that neglected 
half just behind the veil. But now it is brought 
out. At last it is before our view, and it is 
seen to be exactly the thing that was lacking, 
and exactly the thing that the world was look- 
ing for; Bible Healing for the sin-sick soul and 
for the pain-sick body. What more could an 
infinite plan of redemption include? It is the 
summum bonum, the supreme good, of Almighty 
God and His children. What less could a per- 
fect Father devise for His own Universe? 

Is it too much to say then that we have dis- 
covered at last the heart of this Great Book? 



BIBLE HEALING IN THE ATONEMENT 33 

Or that we have found the soul, of this old 
gospel? Or that we have uncovered the secret, 
and the eternal purpose of the cross? "I if I 
be lifted up will draw all men unto me." Jno. 
12: 32. We consider the very heart and essence 
of the gospel to be exemplified in John 3: 16. 
But we so frequently and tragically fail to 
connect and link up the preceding verse or 
two which must inevitably be taken in conjunc- 
tion with it, as it reads, "As Moses lifted up the 
serpent in the wilderness (what for? For bodily 
healing without the shadow of a question) even 
so must the Son of Man be lifted up. That 
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish 
but have eternal life." Surely, this throws new 
light upon Jesus Christ's atonement. "Be ye 
doers of the word, not hearers only." James 1 : 
22. "As ye go preach, saying the Kingdom of 
Heaven is at hand, heal the sick. Matt. 10: 7. 
It is the two-fold gospel. The spiritual message 
of spoken words of the Kingdom, and the phy- 
sical message of healing deeds! Without it we 
have only half a gospel. It is an amazing fact 
to contemplate that Jesus Himself never 
preached without healing, and further, Jesus 
never commissioned any of His contemporary 
followers to preach without carefully instruct- 
ing them to heal. Then there is the third im- 
portant fact, that His last message on earth 
required that all future believers should do the 
same. So we stand on unassailable ground. 
We have a commission of infinite authority and 
of power. What are we going to do with it? 
Are we going to build a house on the sand and 
be among those "that heareth my words and 
doeth them not," or are we going to build upon 
the rock, and be among those "that heareth my 
words and doeth them?" Is Christ's whole 
religion for us, in short, going to be a fleeting 
religion of hearing words; or is it going to be a 



34 BIBLE HEALING PRAYER BOOK 

permanent thing of healing deeds as well? It is 
for us to say. "As for me and my house, we will 
serve the Lord, hear the words and do them, 

build upon the rock." 

No person of faith ever came to Christ in vain 
to get relief from physical sicknesses, when He 
was on the earth. He never permitted one to 
go away without healing. So it must be right. 
He must have desired it to be so. And He is 
the same yesterday, today and forever. The 
recurrent report is that "He healed them all." 
Matt 4: 26. "All that had need of healing." 
Luke 4: 40. His healing is likewise for 
all today, who will accept, in faith. He tasted 
death for every man. Himself took our infirmi- 
ties, and bare our sicknesses. According to the 
Book, "I am the Lord, thy Healer." 



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PREVALENCE IN THE EARLY CHURCH 



CHAPTER III. 

|T is an undoubted fact accepted by all 
■*■ scholars, and verified by Church History, 
that the Healing Ministry which Christ and His 
disciples practised, was regularly and largely 
continued for several centuries in the early 
Church. Holiness, Faith, Obedience and En- 
thusiasm, were at their highest point and ac- 
cordingly until the Fourth century, or more, 
the church assumed this primary command of 
Christ, and faithfully carried out its require- 
ments. In Rome, at the beginning of this 4th 
century, under Constantine, Christianity be- 
came the political state religion. What hap- 
pened then, to dampen and check the zeal and 
spiritual power of the church, is a very com- 
plicated question. But it would appear as 
though the same general disintegrating forces 
which were undermining the moral character 
of the nation and which ultimately brought 
about its decline and downfall, were working 
in the church as well, and sapping it of its 
virility, faith and zeal. Though outwardly the 
action of Constantine seemed a triumph for 
the Church, it was in reality an evil day for 
Christianity when it became the state religion. 
The state was growing worldly, immoral, lux- 
urious; and since the people who compose the 
state are largely the ones who compose the 
Church, the latter also was losing its original 
sacrificial martyr spirit. As a result of this, 
without a doubt it lost its spiritual power, — its 
faith, and consequently diminished its healing 
ministry. 

This seems the most logical and reasonable 



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deduction. We know the church did heal — we 
know she ceased, almost entirely. We know 
that the nation itself declined through inner 
disintegration, corruption and sin, and we infer 
that the same causes also naturally made the 
Church do the same. 

The more important early church Fathers are 
unanimous in speaking of miracles performed 
through the Healing ministry. 

After the death of Christ even the Bible tells 
us of several men — some of them not among 
the twelve apostles — who carried on His healing 
ministry in the First Century. Paul was one 
of them. Peter and John and Philip were 
others. This chapter has especially to do with 
the immediately succeeding centuries. Men 
like Justin Martyr, Irenaus, Clement, Tertul- 
lian, Origen, Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, 
etc., testify directly to the practise which was 
current and wonderfully successful. Justin 
Martyr (100-165) says: "For numberless de- 
moniacs throughout the whole world and in 
your city, many of our Christian men exor- 
cising them in the name of Jesus Christ who 
was crucified under Pontius Pilate, have healed 
and do heal, rendering helpless and driving the 
possessing devils out of the men, though they 
could not be cured by all the other exorcists, 
and those who used incantations and drugs." 

Irenaus (130-200) Adv. Haer (Book II: 4) 
says: "Wherefore also those who are in truth 
the disciples receiving grace from Him, do in 
His name perform miracles, so as to promote 
the welfare of others, according to the gift 
which each has received from Him." Then after 
mentioning several other gifts he says, "others 
still heal the sick, by laying their hands upon 
them, and they are made whole." 

Clement (150-215) says: "Let them therefore, 
with fasting and prayer, make their interces- 



PREVALENCE IN THE EARLY CHURCH 37 

sions, and not with the well arranged and fitly 
ordered words of learning, but as men who have 
received the gift of healing — confidently, to the 
glory of God." Episc. C. XII. 

In his work entitled Ad Scapulam (IV — 4. A. 
D. 212) which is an appeal to Scapula the 
Pro-consul of Africa to cease persecuting the 
Christians, Tertullian gives the following inci- 
dent as an argument. 

"Even Severns himself, the father of 
Antonine was graciously mindful of the Chris- 
tians for he sought out the Christian Proculus 
surnamed Torpacion, the steward of Euhodias, 
and in gratitude for his having once cured him 
by anointing, he kept him in his palace till the 
day of his death." 

This shows that the Christians of the church 
were still healing the sick. Again in another 
connection, "For the clerk of one of them, who 
was liable to be thrown upon the ground by 
an evil spirit, was set free from his affliction 
as was also the relative of another, and the little 
boy of a third. And how many men of rank, 
to say nothing of the common people have 
been delivered of devils and healed of disease." 

In the middle of this century, or thirty years 
later, Origen (241 A. D.) says (Epis. C. XII) 
"And some give evidence of their having re- 
ceived through their faith a marvelous power 
by the cures which they perform, invoking no 
other name over those who need their help 
than that of the God of all things, and of Jesus, 
along with a mention of his history. For by 
these means we too have seen many persons 
freed from grievous calamities and from dis- 
tractions of mind and madness, and countless 
other ills which could be cured neither by men 
or devils." 

A hundred years later Chrysostom (350 A. 
D.) writing on "The Priesthood" says, "Not 



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in chastising only, but in benefiting, God has 
given to Priests a greater power than that of 
our natural parents, and the two differ as much 
as the present and the future life differ from 
each other. For our parents beget us unto this 
life and the Priests beget us unto that. And 
our parents can neither avert us from bodily 
death, nor repulse impending disease; but 
Priests often heal the soul when it is sick and 
ready to perish, securing to them a milder 
punishment and preventing others from falling 
in any degree, and effecting this not by teach- 
ing only, and admonition but by aiding them 
through prayer. He then quotes James 5: 14- 
15, showing that he believes in healing both 
for body and for soul, both for this world and 
the hereafter. 

Roughly, about the year 400, Cyril of Alex- 
andria wrote on "Worshipping in Spirit and in 
Truth" in which he shows the sin of going to 
the "Sorcerers" which in the Greek is, "Phar- 
macy" — in sickness and affliction. "Do thou, 
if thou hast pain in any part of the body and 
truly believest that the words, "Lord of 
Sabaoth," and other names of this sort, which 
holy scripture gives to Him who is God by 
nature, will be able to put an end to the evil 
and so help thee, so thou thyself praying for 
thyself pronounce these words. For thou wilt 
do better than the sorcerers, giving the glory 
to God and not to unclean spirits." Then he 
quotes James 5: 15. 

The Church today, Protestant and Catholic 
alike, count these Fathers as the absolutely best 
authority we have in the history of the Church 
of those days. But a portion conveniently 
forgets their healing testimony of those four 
hundred years and says healing is "only for 
apostolic days" and "the day of miracles is 
past." Well — we may well forget certain 



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phases of those days, especially toward the 
closing of the Fourth Century when the 
Church along with the state was becoming 
pompous, mercenary and corrupt. But if Christ's 
command could be and was obeyed for four 
hundred years after the Apostles, it cuts the 
foundation away from the skeptic, and we can 
never truly say again that this command was 
only for apostolic days. It was for all time, 
and will be successfully obeyed in any age 
when the ardent, zealous, faith is restored. It 
will even have its great Revival in this age! 

And the Church will again take up a man's 
job, and not exert itself with unworthy trifling, 
as it has done before now, squandering its time 
in a prolonged controversy over how many 
angels can dance on the point of a needle. 



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HEALING TESTIMONY OF GREAT 
MODERN MINDS 



CHAPTER IV. 

TT is not only the Old Testament, and it is not 
■*■ only the entire Bible, nor the Early Church, 
that assures of healing, but scientific thought 
is now being converted to the Bible 
position. The process is slow and tedious, and 
far from being completed. But the hardheaded 
thinkers of the every day world, as well as the 
cloistered philosophers, are both at last begin- 
ning to say the same thing. Investigators and 
researchers, chemists and nurses, great physi- 
cians and eminent Divines are frequently con- 
fessing to this truth. 

No less a physician than James H. Jackson, 
M. D., founder of the Jackson Sanitorium has 
said, "There is no more reason for a man being 
sick than a sinner. Jesus came to show us how 
God forgives all our sins, and heals all our 
sicknesses." 

When such experts acknowledge this Divine 
ability, why should the layman disbelieve it? 
If Christ is not able to do as He has promised 
why do we still give Him our allegiance? 

Even that most cold and logical of scientists, 
Thomas Edison, for whom no one would claim 
any deep religious sentiment, goes still farther, 
for he says, "There is absolutely no reason man 
should ever die. Deathless life is bound to 
come in time, and through high science." 

Surely then a life without sickness would 
not be out of harmony with a loving Father's 
will. 



TESTIMONY OF MODERN MINDS 41 

That famous writer, H. G. Wells, says: "God 
fights against death in every form. His 
supreme goal is the conquest of death." 

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death, so says the Bible, I Cor. 15: 26, but 
surely overcoming sickness is a possible and 
practical step in that direction. 

Lyman Abbott, the well known Congrega- 
tional Divine, editor of The Outlook, and suc- 
cessor to Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth 
Church, Brooklyn, puts it this way, "I am- ever in 
the presence not only of a great Power, or a 
great Lawgiver, but a great Healer." He might 
well have said, "The Great Healer," for there is 
only one, no matter how many human agencies 
He may employ. 

The German theologian and scholar, Har- 
nack, says: "Jesus does not distinguish rigidly 
between sickness of body and of soul. He 
takes them both as different expressions of the 
one supreme ailment of society." This is the 
striking fact which is apparent in the gospels, 
— whether is it easier to say, 'Son thy sins be 
forgiven thee,' or to say, 'Arise, take up thy 
bed and walk'? One is as easy to Him, obvi- 
ously, as the other. 

In England last year the Lambeth Confer- 
ence, of the Clergymen of the Episcopal Church, 
issued the following courageous statement. 
"Christians ought to take more account of the 
recent growth about the power of the spirit 
and the mind over body, and display an intense 
faith in their Lord Himself as the source of 
all Healing, bodily and spiritually and have 
bolder expectations of such healing power . . 
for all this is the rightful heritage of all those 
who abide in Divine fellowship. Our fellow- 
ship with one another, not less than our fellow- 
ship with God, triumphs over death." 

When one great orthodox church thus speaks 



42 BIBLE HEALING PRATER BOOK 

out openly and boldly, it is certainly time that 
the rest of us considered the matter. 

Bishop Brent, formerly of the Philippines, 
and head of all the Chaplains in France, says, 
"He who waves away the healing power of 
Christ as belonging only to the early New 
Testament times, is not preaching the whole 
gospel. God was and is the Saviour of the body 
as well as of the soul. He who in Christ Jesus 
heals by stimulating spiritual faculties to appro- 
priate health, is not dependent on what doctors 
can do, nor helpless when doctors fail. God 
is not the last resort in sickness. He is 
the first. He is not only the Physician for the 
great ills, but for small." 

The voice of this man who led the religious 
life of our armies overseas surely ought to 
carry weight and authority. 

James Moore Hickson, the practical spiritual 
healer of England, says, "Until the Church re- 
instates the ministry of healing, it will be a 
failure and will not be carrying out the work 
of the Lord. If there was ever a time when 
there was need for a healing Saviour, it is to- 
day." 

The Healing Saviour has used this man him- 
self in such a notable way that his pronounce- 
ment is worth much. He has had marvelous 
healing missions around the world. 

The great Presbyterian Evangelist, J. Wilbur 
Chapman, just before he died, himself uttered 
these words, "I believe the gift of healing is a 
far greater Divine attainment even than the 
gift of the Evangelist." And he was one of 
the greatest of the evangelists. Other evan- 
gelists have testified to the untold value of Bible 
Healing in their work. 

R. E. Stanton, one time moderator of the 
Presbyterian General Assembly, wrote, (p. 104). 
"It is my aim to show that the atonement of 



TESTIMONY OF MODERN MINDS 43 

Christ lays the foundation equally for deliver- 
ance from sin, and for deliverance from disease; 
that complete provision has been made for 
both: that in the exercise of faith under the 
conditions prescribed, we have the same reason 
to believe that the body may be delivered from 
sickness that we have that the soul may be 
delivered from sin; in short, that both branches 
of the deliverance, stand on the same ground 
and that it is necessary to include both in any 
true conception of what the gospel offers to 
mankind. The atoning sacrifice of Christ covers 
the physical as well as the spiritual needs of the 
race. Let the sick and suffering ones therefore 
among Christ's people, and all others who 
would be rescued from the pangs of disease, 
bear in mind that it is just as clearly God's 
will that they should be healed in body, as it 
is His will that sins should be forgiven, and 
that their souls should be sanctified. Ample 
provision for both is in the death sacrifice of 
Jesus. The limitation of prayer to those things, 
"According to His will" has reference to other 
things than curing disease and saving from 
sin. Healing the body is not therefore a side 
issue, as some represent it. It is no more this 
than healing of the soul is a side issue. They 
are but parts of the same gospel, based equally 
upon the same Great Atonement. Both are to 
be presented to a suffering world to relieve it 
of its woes — - or the gospel is not fully pro- 
claimed as the good news and glad tidings; as 
the full salvation for all the world." 

This is a clear and- Biblical statement of the 
atoning gospel, exactly as it is set forth in the 
Great Book, and no student of the Bible would 
seriously gainsay it. 

Dr. Frank N. Riale — who has quoted the fore- 
going, and who is himself a famous Presby- 
terian protoganist, says, "As long as men have 



44 BIBLE HEALING PRAYER BOOK 

sickness, God will not allow the precious work 
of His Son as the Great Physician, to perish 
from the earth any more than that He is the 
soul-saviour of the race." Dr. Riale's book 
upon the Divine Antidote to Sin, Sickness and 
Death, is an inspiring commentary. 

Rev. Henry B. Wilson, the Episcopalian 
Divine, who is doing such a blessed work is 
also worthy to be quoted. He says. "We do 
not possess the whole truth that He came to 
reveal until we recognize that God is still 
visiting His people and that His power to heal 
and to restore is ever-present and may be mani- 
fested through those of His followers who 
believe in the truth of that presence and appro- 
priate its power." 

John Wesley believed in this ministry and 
speaks very frequently of it. In his journal, 
Sunday, October 3, 1756, when he had "a violent 
disorder," he says, "A thought came into ray 
mind why do I not apply to God in the begin- 
ning rather than at the end of an illness? I did 
so, and found immediate relief; so that I needed 
no further medicines." 

Rev. Wilt, of Trinity M. E. Church, San 
Diego, Cal., has written a splendid book on his 
own blessed healing ministry. 

Rev. E. L. Tibbals, Pastor of the Homecrest 
Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, and one of 
the foremost figures in the Bible Healing 
movement of today, says, "If the Christian 
Church is to live and carry out Christ's program 
it must be both a saving Church and a healing 
Church." Truly a revival is coming. 



STUDY OF SICKNESS AND HEALING 45 



A BIBLE STUDY OF SICKNESS 

AND HEALING 

A Convincing Research 

CHAPTER V. 
**TN the Beginning" — everything very good — 
■*• no Disease. Gen. 1: 31. 

2 Entered through Sin,— "Dying, thou shalt 
die." Gen. ii: 17. 

3 Likewise Death. Rom. v: 12; vi: 23. 

4 Satan, Author of Sin. Gen. iii. 

5 Disease, part of Curse for Sin, the Fruit 
of Disobedience and Compromise with the 
World. Deut. xxviii: 20-22, 27-29, 35, 58, 62, 
66, 67; xxix: 14-22; vii: 12, 15. 

6 When Israel's education began, God separ- 
ated from Egypt, promised exemption from 
Disease, on certain conditions. Ex. xv: 25, 26; 
xxiii: 12-25. 

7 In view of transgressions and disease God 
provided not Medical Treatment, but Healing, 
through Priestly functions. Lev. xiii, xiv. 

8 Medical Science, introduced by Egyptians, 
first referred to in preservation of the dead. 
. . . Gen. 1 : 2. 

9 Fruitless against Plagues. Ex. ix: 8-11, 30. 

10 When Israel left Egypt no mention made 
of accompanying physicians. At outset of Pil- 
grimage, the Lord proclaimed Himself, Jehovah- 
Ropheka (The Lord thy Healer) Ex. xv: 25, 26. 

11 Disease appeared four times in Wilderness, 
each time healed by Supernatural means. 

a. Miriam's Leprosy — Fruit of Jealousy — 
Healed through prayer. Num. xii. 

b. The Plague — Fruit of Rebellion — Stayed 

by atonement. Num. xvi: 46-50. 



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c. Fiery Serpents — Fruit of Discontent. Healed 

through type of the Cross. Num. xxi: 4-9. 

d. The Plague — Fruit of Adultery. Stayed by 

Judgment. 

12 Psalms record Affliction and Deliverance, 
God always deliverer. Special references. 
Ps vi: 1-9; xxx: 2, 3; xxxviii* xxxix: 9-13; xl, 
1-4; ciii: 1-2. 

13 Job, one of oldest records in History, 1520 
B. C„ gives Source of Sickness, Divinely per- 
mitted for self-knowledge. Job ii : 6-7. 

Job's self-satisfaction and need of sanctification 
shown. Job xxvii: 5, 6; xxiv: 14; xxii: 1; xxxiii: 
12, 13. 

The remedy prescribed . . . Job. xxxiii: 
14-30. 

Healed at foot stool of Humility. Job. xl: 
4, 5; xlii: 2-6. Used in Service. 

14 Medical Treatment resorted to by Israelites 
after Solomon's reign, when Egyptian science 
and culture were introduced; first case of 
Medical Treatment. II Chron. xvi: 12, 13. 
Notwithstanding, God still Healer of His people. 
II Chron. vii : 13, 14. 

15 Compare origin and treatment of follow- 
ing cases: 

a. Philistines. I Sam. v: 6, 12; vi: 1-3. 

b. Jehoram. II Chron. xxi: 12-19. 

c. Saul. I Sam. xvi: 14-23. 

d. Nebuchadnezzar. Dan. iv: 27-37. 

e. Naaman. II Kings v: 1-15. 

f. Gehazi. II Kings v: 20-27. 

g. Hezekiah. II Kings xx: 1, 11; II 

Chron. xxxii: 24-26. 

Inference often drawn from last case — that 
God prescribes remedies. God calls them 
"signs," administered by Prophet, not physician. 
Isaiah xxxviii : 7, 8, 21, 22. 

Pronounced hopeless. Isaiah xxxviii: 1. 



STUDY OF SICKNESS AND HEALING 47 

But through contrition and humility came 
Healing. Isaiah xxxviii: 2, 3, 10-20. 

16 Compare following passages showing 
origin of sickness, and fallacy of mere natural 
treatment. Isaiah xxxviii: 24; xxxv: 3-6; Jer. 
xvii: 5; xxix: 16; xxx: 12-17; xxxiii: 6-8; xlvi: 
11; Micah. vi: 13, 14. 

17 Seeing connection of sickness with sin — 
remedy coming through confession and submis- 
sion, or through intercessory prayer and func- 
tions of priests — note vision of our High Priest 
and Redeemer 700 years before He came. 
Isaiah liii. 

Link with prophecy fulfilled. Matt viii: 16-17. 

18 Christ's Ministry marked from com- 
mencement, by healing all who came to him. 
Matt, iv, 23, 24; viii: 16, 17; ix: 35; xiv: 34-36; 
xv: 30, 31; xix: 2; xxi: 14; Mark iii: 9-11; vi: 
54-56; Luke ix: 11. 

19 Twenty-two special cases are given also 
on account of special teachings: — 

1 Nobleman's Son. John iv: 46-56. 

2. Peter's Mother-in-law. Luke iv: 38, 39. 

3 Leper. Mark i: 40-45. 

4 Paralytic. Mark ii: 3, 12. 

5 Ten Lepers. Luke xvii: 12-19. 

6 Centurion's Servant. Luke vii: 2-10; 

Matt, viii: 5-13. 

7 Woman Having an Issue. Luke viii: 43-48. 

8 Syrophoenican Woman. Matt, xv: 22-28; 

Mark vii: 24-30. 

9 Woman with Spirit of Infirmity. Luke 

xiii: 11-16. 

10 Man With Withered Hand. Matt, xii: 

10-13. 

11 Impotent Man at Bethesda. John v: 5-17. 

12 Man with Dropsy. Luke xiv: 2-9. 

13 Blind Man at Jerusalem. John ix. 

14 Blind Man Bethsaida. Mark viii: 22-26. 



8 BIBLE HEALING PRAYER BOOK 

15 Blind Bartimaeus. Luke xviii: 35-43; Mark 

x: 46-52. 

16 Two Blind Men. Matt, ix: 27-31. 

17 Deaf and Dumb. Mark vii: 32-37. 

18 Lunatic, Blind and Dumb. Matt, xii: 

22-30. 

19 Lunatic— Dumb. Matt, ix: 32-34. 

20 Lunatic. Mark i: 23-27. 

21 Lunatic Boy — Epilepsy. Matt, xvii: 14- 

21; Markix: 17-29. 

22 Gadarene Demoniac. Mark v: 2-19. 
Prophecy thus' fulfilled. Isa. lxi: 1-3; 

Luke iv: 16-21. 

23 Christ's farewell words at close of Min- 

istry, returning to His Father, would 
give world-convincing proofs of His 
continuance in His disciples. John 14: 12. 

24 Betrayed, Crucified, Triumphant over 

Death, gives parting blessing at 
Bethany. Matt. 28: 18-20; Mark 16: 
15-18. 

25 The Comforter, the Holy Ghost carries on 

the work which Jesus began. Acts 1:1. 

26 Physical healing,' as much part of Gospel 

as salvation of soul. Cases of Healing 
recorded amongst deeds of Apostles. 
Though Himself invisible, power of the 
Lord present: — 

a Lame man at Beautiful Gate. Acts 

3: 1-10. 
b Aeneas at Lydda. Acts 9: 32-35. 
c Cripple at Lystra. Acts 14: 6-10. 
d Paul's own experience of Healing. 

Acts 14: 19, 20; 28: 3, 6. 
e Publius' Father-in-law and others. 

Acts 28: 8, 9. 

27 Secret of Paul's strength. II. Cor. 1: 8- 

11; 4: 10-18; 5: 4, 5; 12: 6, 10; Gal. 2: 
20; Rom. 8: 2. 



STUDY OF SICKNESS AND HEALING 49 

28 Gifts of Healing, Part of Ministry in early 

Church. I Cor. 12: 9-12. 

29 Through whom continued, after Apostolic 

Age? James, Bishop of Church at 
Jerusalem, answers: — Ministry of Heal- 
ing to be carried on not by Apostles or 
Physicians, but "elders" — the ordinary 
office-bearers in every church and age. 
James 5: 14, 15, 16. 

30 If through unbelief, Shepherds of the 
Flock refuse to obey, (James 5: 14) then 

God uses Elders in the faith. 

31 "Ordinance" of anointing not "medical" 

anointing. Mark 6: 13. 

32 Being Commanded — Shows connection of 

sickness with sin — continuation of Stat- 
ute. Ex. 15: 26. 

33 Soul and body thus allied, John the be- 

loved disciple, includes both in farewell 
wishes. Ill John 2. 

34 Gentiles come into blessings of Israel. 

Gal. 3: 8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 22, 26-29. _ 

35 Finally, Jesus says, "Lo I am with you 

alway !" 
He is the same yesterday, and today, 
and forever. Heb. 13: 8. 

36 As Risen Saviour, His life is given through 

the Spirit. Rom. 8: 11. 

37 Physical Healing — a fruit of His suffering. 

Isa. 53: 4, 5, 10, 11. 

38 Preparation for translation of His mem- 

bers at His coming. II Cor. 5: 4, 5; 
Phil. 3: 20, 21. 

39 His words are Spirit, and they are Life. 

John 6: 63. 

In view of this, Beloved, 

"How is it ye have no faith?" Mark 4: 

40. 



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HIDDEN FROM THE WISE 
REVEALED UNTO BABES 



CHAPTER VI. 
ESUS Christ, the preeminent Healer, as well 
J as Teacher, was not the founder of any col- 
lege or university. He never established or 
endowed a Research Foundation. He never 
started a technical school. In fact examining 
all the Scripture evidence, He never seems to 
have made higher learning a requisite to suc- 
cess or usefulness in His scheme of things. He 
never even recommended education as an 
especially desirable qualification for member- 
ship in His Kingdom, nor did He ever concede 
that the key of Science was the one supreme and 
dominating factor in the world. All He ever 
did in this direction was to quietly and simply, 
teach a handful of followers, the spirit and the 
few fundamental truths of His religion. And 
whereas the leaders in important affairs today 
must naturally be men of culture and educa- 
tion, the leaders in His movement were almost 
without exception, unlettered and humble men. 
The propagation of the Kingdom was not be- 
queathed to college professors, nor was it con- 
fined to Doctors of Divinity. Moreover, it has 
been largely true through the centuries that the 
tremendous advances in spiritual lines have oc- 
cured through the agencies of ordinary men 
and women, and not through the world's wise 
and prudent ones. Jesus picked no rich and 
influential members of society to head His 
cause, or to form His executive committee, such 
as are invariably chosen today by every large- 



HID FROM WISE— REVEALED TO BABES 51 

scale movement, but on the contrary, He chose 
a crowd of poor and ignorant and mediocre 
men. He entrusted the perpetuating of this 
gospel of love and healing and salvation, to a 
group of day-laborers and just common people. 
They were untutored and unschooled, but their 
faith was great. They had the hearts and the 
trust of little children and therein lay their 
secret of usefulness. Such usually have teach- 
able minds. They also have enthusiasm. And 
thus it was that Jesus passed by the more 
promising individuals, who had learning, 
wealth, and prestige, while He appointed 
smaller men in the world's eyes, but those who 
were willing to take His teaching and carry it 
to its conclusion at whatever cost. And so it is 
today. While it does require men of wealth 
and prominence to build costly structures and 
erect magnificent edifices, it is not necessary to 
be such to do the work of Christ and carry out 
His will. Strange to say, the names that are 
most intimately associated with advancing 
Christianity are not the names of wealthy or 
learned, but rather those of lowly and of conse- 
crated ones. 

Thanks be to God the wondrous work of 
Bible Healing is no exception. It is not con- 
fined to those who have been through the 
famous schools and learned the Arts and 
Sciences as is the case with ordinary healing, 
but it is often given to those who have never 
passed a technical examination nor secured an 
official license. When God licenses men to do 
a mighty work, many of the surface formalities 
of human civilization dwindle into insignifi- 
cance. Think of Peter asking the Church Con- 
ference if he could preach, or Paul asking the 
Medical Board if he might be allowed to heal! 
Ah, no, if one be gifted of the Lord to preach 
or heal all the injunctions of the conference or 



52 BIBLE HEALING PRATER BOOK 

the board may not prevent him, and if he be not 
so endowed, all the universities or the money, 
all the education or the licenses of society can- 
not equip him with the real power, though they 
may enable him to go through the outward and 
superficial formalities. It were as well for a 
Board to attempt to license an artist to paint, 
a sculptor to carve, or a musician to play; but 
that would be all there was to it, unless God 
licensed him also. Simple child-like faith, sad 
to say, is not always vouchsafed to the scholar, 
but it is essential to spiritual healing none the 
less, and the riches of grace in Christ Jesus are 
fully unlocked and revealed to those with the 
faith of a babe, even though like the disciples 
of old, they be unlearned and ignorant men. 

The pathetic fact which Jesus found so pre- 
valent, and which called forth His most touch- 
ing, as well as His most sarcastic comment, was 
that it was the educated and the socially promi- 
nent who so frequently talked nice platitudes 
and self-satisfied theories, but did not do any 
actual work in promoting the happiness, the 
righteousness or the comfort of the people. 
"The pharisees sit in Moses' seat" (interpreting 
the law), said Jesus, "therefore whatsoever they 
bid you observe, that observe and do, but do 
not after their works, for they say, and do not." 
Matt. 23: 28. Not he that sayeth Lord, shall 
enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth 
His will. 

And He also harshly censured the indifferent 
and formal representatives of organized religion 
in the well-known words, "Woe unto you 
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut 
up the kingdom of heaven against men, for ye 
neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them 
that are entering to go in." Matt. 23: 13. 
Would not those words of Christ sound 
strangely pertinent in the Church today? The 



HID FROM WISE— REVEALED TO BABES 53 

sincere though unlearned enthusiast was of 
far more value in His crusade than the cold, 
educated and calculating formalist. It has been 
so in every age. Any movement, no matter how 
true and inspiring and beneficial, when its 
founder has passed on, tends in time to become 
set and conservative, and to care more for the 
forms and appearances than for the inner spirit 
and reality. So it is with Christianity. For 
some centuries it followed Jesus closely — and 
then it became professional and formal and 
institutional and conventionalized for a thou- 
sand years! Then Luther with his mighty 
movement, awakened it and shook it into 
reality again. But now for a full four 
centuries and more, it has had no vital vision 
and the Church seems in a lethargic stupor, 
which almost bids fair to be fatal. This 
new development of Christianity, the Bible 
Healing movement, be it stated hopefully is the 
quickening spirit which can save the dying 
church. Clergymen of vision receive it gladly, 
and it proves to be the one thing needful and 
the "one thing thou lackest." Their churches 
are marvelously aroused and blessed. The in- 
spiring testimony of the multitude is most 
encouraging. And where the learned classes 
hold themselves as being above it, the 
common people with the spirit of a child, 
pick up the torch and run on ahead with it. 
Avowedly it is a crusade! "Verily I say unto 
you," says Jesus, "whosoever shall not receive 
the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall 
not enter therein." Mark 10: 15. The teach- 
ing is as plain as light. God wants to use those 
messengers who will obediently carry out His 
commands, but He will cast aside the one who 
insists upon his own way and method — and that 
one will wonder why he has not succeeded. 
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ever-present all-pervading and dominant note in 
Jesus' talk and in His actions, and He leaves 
it to His children to decide if they will obey. 
The common people, and the child-like spirits 
are for it — where will the learned and wise ones 
of the world stand upon the question? The 
decision for them will mean success or failure. 

For the reasons heretofore set down, the 
revival growth and destiny of Bible Healing, 
— this wondrous new development of Chris- 
tianity in this age — this re-discovered ministry, 
will not depend for its success merely upon 
earth's influential persons, but upon those of 
the household of faith, whether they be of high 
or low degree. Such will take it to all the 
world. This is the most hopeful and joyous 
feature about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Its 
physical healing and its spiritual salvation can- 
not at all be usurped or monopolized by a privi- 
leged class, no matter how wealthy or powerful 
it might be. Jesus Christ is the great leveler 
of mankind, and it is by childlike faith alone 
that any man, be he prince or peasant, can 
apprehend the blessings of the kingdom, for 
God is no respector of persons. 

The greatest testimonial Jesus had, was that 
the common people heard Him gladly. As 
Lincoln said, "God must love the rank and file 
of homely folks, since He made so many of 
them." 



GATHERING MOMENTUM 



GATHERING MOMENTUM 



CHAPTER VII. 

^jNE of the most hopeful signs in the world 
^-^ today, and especially for the Churches with 
the forward look, is the fact that there is a 
genuine stirring in the hearts of men throughout 
the earth, for the fuller living up to our high 
privileges as children of God. In spite of some 
opinion to the contrary the spirit is moving 
mightily in these days when the devastating 
hand of war has shown us- how inadequately we 
had followed Jesus, and how faultily we had 
built up what we strangely called a Christian 
World Civilization. Our delusion has now been 
rudely torn down, and we are back at the foun- 
dation. But we have started again. And we 
have God to thank that the wreckage at least 
has been taken away and that the scales which 
have blinded us have been shorn from our eyes, 
so that we now see the deficiency of what was, 
and the necessity of the future. While the busi- 
ness world is not yet straightened out, the reli- 
gious world has already made its new start, in 
the right direction, and is gaining momentum 
day by day. The leaders of the Church recog- 
nize today as they never saw before, the inade- 
quacy of the merely rhetorical gospel and the 
supreme necessity of the gospel of deeds, 
'Preach the Kingdom, and heal the sick' — is a 
more acceptable idea today than it has been for 
many centuries. The pathetic masses of the 
people also are ripe and ready, yea, are yearning 
with an intense yearning for this gospel to be 



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put into effect. Actual demonstration of our 
theoretical principles, is now longed for, and the 
fast-increasing number of Churches, Pastors, 
and even laymen, who are investing their lives 
in this blessed work is ample evidence of the 
gathering momentum. There is more cause to 
believe that the Church is now going to step 
out and claim her prerogatives and utilize her 
power than for a long time. Yea, she is already 
doing so! The fact that Churches of every de- 
nomination are today conducting these full 
gospel services, — preaching the kingdom and 
healing the sick, — without any large or serious 
objection whatever being registered, is an indi- 
cation that the mind of Christ is now being 
seriously considered and followed. From New 
York to Los Angeles, individual Churches of 
all faiths are holding Prayer and Healing 
Circles, and blessed reports are continually com- 
ing in from Methodist and Baptist, Presbyterian 
and Congregational, Episcopalian, and other 
Evangelical Churches, to the glory of Almighty 
God. From Japan come wonderful letters, 
from two independent missionaries, Rev. F. W. 
Cox and Mrs. Cox, who are there establishing 
the Bible Healing Gospel, and just as this comes 
from the press, another missionary is in Eng- 
land. As these two great remaining Empires of 
the world become innoculated with this crusad- 
ing ministry, surely, it is one of the great 
moment's history! Missionaries also who are 
under the direction of the specific denomina- 
tional Boards in many places have been joy- 
ously telling of the wondrous successful use 
which the Lord has made of them in healing of 
the sick in body and in spirit, on the foreign 
fields, and in so-called heathen lands. These 
heathen, with an earnestness of soul, are look- 
ing for the appearance of the Lord in blessing 
and in power, and frequently outrival our own 



GATHERING MOMENTUM 



zeal and enthusiasm. May God speed their 
earnest efforts and their work. 

In the last analysis it is this which counts. 
Facts are stubborn things. The actual healing 
of a human being from sickness of body; the 
actual alleviating and dispelling of mental dis- 
order, and the actual saving of his soul as well 
as the healing of his awful worry and his 
poverty, are very difficult to argue against, and 
are surely the highest kind of Christ service. - 
Though this book is not a catalogue of personal 
testimonials, it can vouch that such things are 
repeatedly and continually being done through 
the. Bible Healing movement. 



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NO HOPELESS CASES 



CHAPTER VIII. 

T^HE question is often asked, Are there any 
•*■ hopeless cases? The Bible replies. 

No. The answer is categorical. There are 
none whatever. The Bible says in Matthew 
19: 26, with God all things are possible. And 
certainly we are all in the hands of God. The 
Bible says in Matthew 17: 22, If ye have faith 
as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be 
impossible to you. Jesus had the great vision 
to readily admit this. There are no hopeless 
cases. It would be exactly as sensible for us 
to have presumed to say a short time ago that 
never in the world would men be able to fly up 
in the air; or to say that men could never be 
heard a hundred miles by radio without any 
apparent connection, or that men could never 
run a boat under the sea, as to say that there 
is no-hope for a sick individual. We blink facts. 
It would be more graceful if we would swallow 
our pitiful egotism, and frankly say we do not 
know what wonders are in store for us, just 
behind the veil, either in the scientific or in the 
spiritual realm. That would allow the Creator 
some standing room in His universe, which is 
denied to Him when we humans so emphati- 
cally air our views as to what is impossible. 
Almighty God can do all things. If 
there is no hopeless soul before God, then 
there is no hopeless body either. Nothing is 
impossible with Him. He can pull down the 



NO HOPELESS CASES 



strongholds of Kings and can set up humble 
children into places of supremacy. He can 
transform a hopeless and miserable soul — and 
He can likewise renew a wasted broken body. 
His methods of work are many and varied 
and often little understood, but He is still 
absolute controller of this universe, and of 
everything and everybody in it. There is no 
man so tough that He cannot forgive and re- 
generate him and there is none so sick that He 
cannot heal. There is no man so poor that He 
cannot make him rich, none so sad that He 
cannot make him glad. He is all — in all. All 
things are yours. And Faith is the key. Who- 
ever you are, wherever you live, whatever 
affliction may be yours, God says that it is not 
incurable and that He can heal you. And the 
first and only step you can now take is to turn 
to Him, surrender yourself to Him, trust in 
Him, and follow Him. Skepticism and doubt 
are the most killing things in the world. Faith, 
trust, hope and belief, are the most life-giving 
things. Doubt is destructive, but faith is con- 
structive. No man could build a worthy edifice 
on doubt, but many an heroic soul has built a 
noble and eternal house on Faith — and fre- 
quently on Faith alone! God does likewise. 

Faith means conviction, plus determination. 
If a man has that God will step in and enable 
him to do the impossible. He will enable him 
to overcome the incurable disease; to change 
the incurable poverty; to surmount the incur- 
able worry or sorrow — to conquer the incurable 
sin. God only, can do this. And He can do 
it only through faith. So that while the doubt- 
ing, unbelieving skeptical man is almost an 
impossible person, the believer of great faith 
owns the world. All things are his. 

He shall have the desires of his heart. These 
things are not myths. These things are in the 



60 BIBLE HEALING PRATER BOOK 

realm of mathematical, demonstrable fact. And 
until the individuals in the church in a humble and 
childlike spirit acknowledge the potency of 
these things, the church is only 50 per cent 
efficient — like the popular automobile chugging 
away on two cylinders. 



OBJECTION AND INSTRUCTION 



OBJECTION AND INSTRUCTION 



CHAPTER IX 

TN face of all the testimony of the Bible, and 
■*■ of experience, it is constantly necessary to 
answer certain objections and to have certain 
spiritual instructions, Jesus Himself foresaw 
and foretold these things. There are six stock 
objections frequently met, and three main in- 
structions to be always regarded: 

1. The first objection is that people would 
not die if these claims were substantiated! 
Well, without doubt, the time will come as the 
Bible says, when people will not die. But in this 
age of little faith they do and will continue 
to die. Yet this is no argument against 
being well and happy while they live. 
God now sets bounds to human life (Ps. 
90: 10) and He also says that strength shall be 
accordingly (Deut. 33: 25) and then like Moses 
we should pass out painlessly and beautifully. 

2. The second objection is that in giving us 
material agencies, drugs, etc., God expects us to 
confine ourselves to them. This is not true. 
Cocaine, whisky, opium, morphine, etc., are 
concocted by man himself, and that for profit, 
and they are not recommended in the Bible. 
God alone is recommended, and is successful. 

3. The third objection is that such healing 
sometimes fails. Of course, it does! So it did 
with Jesus. But why? Lack of faith, and that 
alone. Does other kind of healing always or 
even usually succeed? The awful rate of youth- 
ful mortality answers the question. Bible 



62 BIBLE HEALING PRAYER BOOK 

Healing is always successful where the faith of 
the person is sufficient. 

4. The fourth objection is that as God Him- 
self sends the sickness to purify us, we ought 
to meekly bear it. Then why ever call a doctor? 
Never once is that propounded in the Bible! 
The whole philosophy there is the opposite. "I 
wish above all things, that thou mayest prosper 
and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 
III. John 2." 

5. The fifth objection is that the day of 
miracles is past, — that God did these things 
only in Jesus day to give the church power and 
to help it becolne established. Not so! Bible 
Healing was practised centuries before Jesus, 
and continued centuries after Him, as He de- 
sired it to do. Then, with loss of faith, it 
ceased. But the church greatly needs that 
power and faith today! 

6. The sixth objection is that Christian 
Science, Spiritualism, etc., claim the same cures. 
What of it? Jesus refused to stop other men 
besides the twelve from healing. He said, "He 
that is not against us is for us." Luke 9: 50. 
By their fruits ye shall know them.. Yet Bible 
Healing is quite different from Christian 
Science, — is the safest and most enduring of any 
cure, either for body or for soul. 

These are the chief objections, and they may 
be thus readily met. The spiritual instructions 
however as to personal qualifications for suc- 
cess in this blessed healing ministry are not so 
readily met, mastered, and fulfilled. They are 
not many; they are not hard to grasp; but they 
are often difficult to attain. Jesus says, "Be 
ye doers of the word, not hearers only." "Not 
he that sayeth — but he that doeth . . ' 

I. The first instruction is this. Have a happy, 
confident, Godly life. A consciousness that 
you are God's own messenger, and that you 



OBJECTION AND INSTRUCTION 63 

are specifically sent to do His will and that 
therefore you can do it and must do it, will 
help you to overcome all obstacles. Holy 
confidence and Godliness is the first and great 
essential without which you cannot succeed and 
possessing which you could not possibly fail. 
God will heal you, if you have it. He will also 
make you a channel of healing. 

II. The second point of instruction is this. 
Have a purified and gracious personality. This 
is extremely important. Egotism or uncouth- 
ness will be fatal, even to an otherwise Godly 
soul. One must be pleasant and dignified, like 
his Master, speaking with quiet, magnetic 
authority, without arrogance or ostentation, for 
he possesses the power of truth and holy love. 
And these require no noisy champion. They 
justify themselves. Purity of purpose produces 
powerful personality. Ever remember this truth. 

III. The third instruction is this. Have a fully 
surrendered preparation. Whether you seek 
healing for yourself, or desire it for some one 
else, you must be prepared, by an acquaintance 
with the one Book of Healing, the Bible. You 
must surrender and sacrifice any other distract- 
ing things in order to get this vital preparation. 
"Leave all and follow me," Jesus said. But 
it is the heart which must first be sur- 
rendered to God. In short, Godliness, Per- 
sonality, and Preparedness, are the great essen- 
tials to success in this holy, sacred ministry. 
Just as a soldier going out to battle who must 
above all things have the first and great essen- 
tial, namely: courage, nevertheless would be 
greatly handicapped if he did not also possess 
endurance, and then also have ammunition, so 
the true adherent of Bible Healing must have 
a confident Godliness to begin with, and should 
also have a pure and gracious Personality, and 
then a fully surrendered and definite Prepara- 



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tion in this wondrous field. Many other things 
are desirable, — these are indispensable. 

This great movement and ministry is already 
rapidly enlisting in its sweep a large, important 
and ever-increasing body of Protestant ministers 
and laymen who firmly believe in the efficacy 
of united prayer for the healing of the body 
according to God's Word. Bible Healing also 
holds that the healing of the mind and soul 
is the first great step in the healing of the 
body, and works in the same spirit as the 
Christian medical profession, in fostering a 
Christian faith which in the last analysis looks 
to the Great Physician, our Blessed Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ. 

The main object of the Bible Healing Movement 
is to restore the lost art of spiritual healing 
through faith and prayer — Jesus preached 
and healed — His disciples did the same. We, 
as His commissioners, must go out and do the 
same. In the words of the ninth chapter of 
Matt, verse 29, etc., and also over in Matthew 
18 : 19, we have the blessed assurance of success, 
and the untold wealth of power. 

A vast multitude of God's people have in 
recent years drifted into the various cults and 
isms that have sprung up overnight. They 
have moved away from the old Gospel truth. 
They must be brought back and made to see 
that the Christian Church believes in saving 
and healing. 

Bible Healing is the proper and rightful fire 
of the evangelical Church. Christ Himself gave 
it this fire. Therefore, we must stand united 
and against erroneous winds of doctrine which 
today are pulling at so many of God's people. 
Christ commissioned the Church to do this, 
and thus originated the slogan, "Preach the 
Kingdom — heal the sick," and this shall once 



OBJECTION AND INSTRUCTION 65 

more vitalize the Church! The very imagina- 
tion thrills at the wondrous task. 

The purpose and plan of the Bible Healing- 
idea is to get the churches of the Christian 
faith to urgently teach and preach concerning 
this forgotten Gospel truth, and further to 
definitely and publicly carry on this labor of 
love where the sick may come and be 
blessed and prayed for. The hour has struck! 
The time has come for the real Crusaders of 
Christ to step out and preach the full-orbed 
Gospel. The exactly central verse of the Bible 
is this: "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; 
Who healeth all thy diseases." By faith, we 
are saved — by faith we are healed. This move- 
ment has marvelously stimulated every church 
which has taken it up. It will do the same 
wherever tried. 

In starting this revival, the Pastor or leader 
should first preach on the theme — and then after 
the discourse, gather together all who favor 
such a movement in the church. A judicious 
presentation of the subject ought to bring al- 
most unanimous approval since the project is 
so soundly based in Scripture. When favorable 
sentiment has once been registered, the Pastor's 
sanctified judgment, assisted by the outlines 
given will guide his action. The best time to 
start is the present. The work is for all faiths, 
and interdenominational. Let all join in daily 
prayer for a revival and restoration of Jjod's 
Healing Power through Faith and Prayer, with 
the Bible as the one authority and guide. 



BIBLE HEALING PRATER BOOK 



TECHNIQUE FOR THE MINISTRY OF 
BIBLE HEALING 

CHAPTER X. 

TX the ministry of Bible Healing, when all is 
-■- said and done; when one has reached the 
certainty in his own mind, that as a disciple of 
the Lord, he must utilize this sweet and joyous 
blessing; and when he has also mastered the 
unanswerable authority of Scripture for this 
ministry, then he comes face to face with the 
direct question, What must I do? How shall I 
begin? 

The actual method to "be employed, or the 
technique, so to speak is a matter for careful 
consideration, and very thoughtful study. The 
Bible is to be our constant and unerring guide. 
Let us make no mistake. We are living in a 
rough and ready world, surrounded by hard and 
stubborn facts. We find as a prelude to our 
entrance certain actual conditions, which are 
difficult to overcome, and we find that God- 
minded people with whom to work are not al- 
ways so easily found. We are living in a 
society which to an amazing degree has an 
erroneous earth-born philosophy. Recent his- 
tory has proven this. Civilization is organized 
upon a strangely unscriptural theory and basis, 
even as Jesus realized. "For they loved the 
praise of men, more than the praise of God." 
John 12: 43. Like Asa of old, II Chron. 16: 
12, "In our disease we seek not to the Lord" 
for our healing and our strength. This is true 
in the diplomatic and political realm, as well 
as the physiological. We have been educated 
and taught through years of professional pro- 



TECHNIQUE FOR BIBLE HEALING 67 

paganda that when anything is wrong with us 
either in body, in mind, or in the soul, that all 
we need to do is to resort to some mechanical 
or scientific conjuration and everything will 
straightway be made right. We are often told 
that we are simply a piece of machinery and 
that consequently, if a burr flies off we must put 
it on again, if a lever drops down we lift it up, 
or if a valve falls open we must push it shut. 
The difficulty lies however in the fact that too 
frequently in the process prescribed, we impair 
the rest, or else destroy the whole. And the 
dominant fact to be borne in mind is that man 
is not a mere piece of machinery, but a great 
deal more. To the spiritually-minded, and the 
Christian, man as a Being, is Divine — and not 
mechanical, — and just here is where we part 
company with much of so-called modern 
science. God comes in, with that which is in 
the scientific world, "The unknown quantity." 
But because scientists to a very large degree 
in the past succeeded in getting a materialistic 
conception into the habits of public thought, to 
say nothing of legislation itself, by their fre- 
quently unnatural propaganda, we must not be 
surprised when we find our Christian labors 
hampered and at times our work moving slowly. 
We must adjust ourselves to these facts of life. 
Modern science seems to have gotten some kind 
of magic control of society, so that when an 
institute today claims to prolong human life by 
merely mechanical or scientific processes, it 
seems to thrive and prosper. Accordingly, so- 
called modern science sometimes makes it diffi- 
cult for carrying out the Lord's work, and the 
Scriptural commands of Bible Healing. Science 
is no respector of persons. However, as fol- 
lowers of Christ we must exercise patience, 
because the world is overcome and healed by 
Faith. 



68 BIBLE HEALING PRAYER BOOK 

However, there are frequently to be found 
Godly scientists and medical doctors who even 
call for spiritual assistance right in hospitals, 
and the Devotions in the following pages are 
exactly fitted to such a case. 

Now and then a very important ques- 
tion which comes up is this. Should the sacra- 
ment of the Communion of the Lord's Supper 
always be observed in connection with this 
sacred ministry? Generally speaking, and 
in theory, Yes! It is a most beautiful and a 
most significant accompaniment, without a 
doubt. Our bodies quickened by partaking of 
His body! In actual practice, however, it is 
oftentimes not possible. 

First. Because oftentimes people who know 
something about the Lord and who believe in 
Him, as far as they are able, are still in great 
ignorance as to the requirements of religion 
and the demands of Christian discipleship, and 
consequently are not yet ready for church mem- 
bership, though they are in an attitude to be 
presently instructed, and soon received into the 
church. 

Second. Because frequently one may be 
called upon, especially in the home, to exercise 
the healing ministry when it is inconvenient or 
impractical to have the sacred elements at hand. 
And this should not in any degree hamper or 
hinder the exercising of the wondrous ministry 
of healing. 

Third. Because there is a tendency, in hav- 
ing the Holy Communion too frequently, to 
lose sight of its peculiarly sacred meaning, and 
to fall into the way of ''not discerning the Lord's 
body," although we ought always, when partak- 
ing of it, to remember the double purpose of 
His atonement, "This is my blood shed for the 
remission of sins (of the soul) Matt. 26: 27, 
"this is my body broken for you (for the heal- 



TECHNIQUE FOR BIBLE HEALING 69 

ing of your bodies) I Cor. 11: 24. "He for- 
giveth all thine iniquities, He healeth all thy 
diseases." Ps. 103: 3. "Himself took our in- 
firmities and bare our sickness." Matt. 8: 16. 
And so we should have certain stated occasions 
when Healing Prayer should accompany the 
large public ceremony of partaking of the 
Lord's Supper. These things will be made 
plain, and our minds will be illuminated by the 
Holy Spirit Himself, who as you go on and 
progress, will guide you into all truth; a spirit 
of judgment and wisdom and discernment will 
come, and the sanctified common-sense which 
God gives to His own, will permeate the work 
as it develops and enlarges. It will, of course, 
seem a little new and strange at first, merely 
because the church has neglected it so long, 
but it soon comes to be as natural as any other 
ecclesiastical practice, and it also brings a 
spiritual ecstacy and exhilaration; a joyful 
definiteness to the pastor's work, which noth- 
ing else has ever brought, and it further pro- 
duces a zeal and adds an interest in the meet- 
ings such as is almost incredible. There may 
be an exceptional ministry here and there, one 
in a hundred, perhaps, where the church is al- 
ready full, and the interest keen, and which 
does not therefore feel the need of this other 
half of Christ's Gospel, but in the ninety and 
nine gasping and waning parishes, this is the 
quickening spirit that will save the dying 
church. As testified in the Bible, Acts 5: 14, 
this is the original blessing which brought be- 
lievers to the Lord and multitudes, both of 
men and women into the church, and its power 
is not lessened in this day as is being proven 
continually. 

As a matter of course, any of these suggestions 
to leaders or pastors as to the method or tech- 
nique in public meetings, presuppose the fact 



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that the ground has been prepared, and that 
the people have been led up to the movement 
judiciously and wisely, because out of the first 
two or three such healing meetings in the 
church, there should naturally grow a definite 
and regular feeling that it is an integral and 
natural part of the church life. The midweek 
meeting will thus come to be known as the 
Bible Healing Prayer Meeting. When requests 
are made for prayer, the Pastor need not be the 
only one to pray for the suppliant although 
others should rather modestly limit them- 
selves, and* refrain from much speaking as 
Jesus counseled. Thus this ministry will be 
blessed. It is the most comprehensive and 
practical schedule that Christianity has yet 
evolved. In that it has taken up the funda- 
mental command in obedience to Christ, it has 
a true mission and a lasting destiny promised 
it from above, which will inevitably eclipse the 
purely temporary successes of the greatest so- 
called Healing Cults. 

The Churches which have begun this and 
gotten under way are giving the most glowing 
reports and showing the most wonderful en- 
thusiasm, and other pastors and churches are 
daily and hourly displaying an interest and an 
ardor which is almost beyond believing. The 
midweek meeting may well be transformed into 
a Healing service, and this can be conducted 
with dignity and great power. The attendance 
will be enlarged and a spiritual dynamo con- 
structed which will give great impulse to the 
whole church. Nor should it be confined to 
healing of the sick alone. The perplexed, the 
sad, the lonely and the condition of poverty can 
all be healed by ardent prayer and meditation. 
And much attention should be given to the 
Healing Silence. In all our hustle and excite- 
ment, just waiting, on the Lord is of untold 



TECHNIQUE FOR BIBLE HEALING 71 

value. If He be trustworthy we can renew our 
strength by waiting on Him. Is. 40: 31. Heart- 
healing is the secret of all, for out of it are the 
issues of life. Surely, the Church must give it 
now. The hour is struck. That church of what- 
ever denomination which will now join the 
ranks of those who are taking up this full- 
gospel ministry will receive a power and a spir- 
itual blessing before undreamed, besides seeing 
the joy of sick ones restored to health. "Now 
is the accepted time, Behold, now is the day of 
salvation." II. Cor. 6: 2, for the church. Oh, 
may she, like the good Samaritan, embrace the 
great opportunity. Go thou and do likewise, 
said Jesus, in His day; or, in the language of 
the modern American, "Get on the job." 



SECTION II. 

The Services 



SERVICE FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP 



A Suggested Healing 

SERVICE FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP 

I. 

(The service shall be opened as follows) 
Organ Prelude 

"JV/TinistEr. I was glad when they said unto 
*■*■*■ me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. 
(Ps. 122: 1.) 

People. This is the day which the Lord hath 
made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 
118: 24.) 

Minister. The Lord is in His holy temple, 
let all the earth keep silence before Him. 
(Heb. 11: 20.) 

(After a few moment's pause Minister shall say Prayer 
of Invocation) 

Almighty and most merciful God, we greatly 
rejoice in Thy bounteous love and we acknow- 
ledge our own unworthiness of it. Too often 
we have strayed away from " Thy paths of 
righteousness, and we have followed our own 
worldly inclinations and desires. But, Thou, 
O Lord hast invited us to come boldly unto 
the Throne of Grace that we may obtain mercy 
and find grace to help, in time of need, — and 
so we now claim Thy promise. In penitence 
and Godly humility we pray for pardon and 
peace of soul, and for health and restoration 
of body. Heal us, O Lord, for Thy mercy's 
sake; we ask it in the name of Jesus Christ, 
who taught us to pray. 

(Congregation Joining) 

"Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed 
be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will 
be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us 



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this day our daily bread and forgive us our 
trespasses as we forgive those who trespass 
against us. And lead us not into temptation, 
but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the 
kingdom and the power and the glory forever. 
Amen. 
Doxology 

(The Minister and People shall then say the Apostles' 
Creed) 

I believe in God the Father Almighty, 
maker of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ 
His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived 
by the Holy Ghost; born of the Virgin Mary; 
suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified 
dead and buried. He descended into hell. 
The third day He rose again from the dead; 
He ascended into heaven; and sitteth on the 
right hand of God the Father Almighty; from 
thence He shall come to judge the quick and the 
dead. 

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy cath- 
olic Church; the communion of Saints; the 
forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the 
body; and the life everlasting. Amen. 

Gloria. 

Responsive Reading — Psalter. 

The Minister shall then say: 

Hear the Public Scripture Reading 

for the Day. 

(For special day of month, with prayer, 

See pages 133 to 177) 

Music — (To follow Public Scripture Reading 

and Prayer). 
Announcements and Oeeertory 
Hymn — From Healing Hymns. 
Sermon 

Healing Silence — Calm Affirmations. 
Benediction — To be spoken slowly by Minister. 



SERVICE FOR BAPTISM 



A Suggested 

SERVICE FOR BAPTISM 
. II. 

The Minister shall say: 

Ix/TY beloved Child in Christ, inasmuch as 
■*■»■!■ our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, be- 
coming an example unto us, submitted to being 
baptized with water, and admonished us that 
except we also be born again of water and of 
the Holy Spirit, we could in nowise enter the 
kingdom of God, — having come here in the pre- 
sence of these witnesses to obey and fulfill this 
solemn obligation, as well as to enjoy the bless- 
ings of this symbol of the washing of regenera- 
tion, let us look to God in prayer. 

Almighty, loving and merciful Father, we 
humbly ask Thee for this child of Thine that 
he may receive forgiveness of all his sin and 
total and complete regeneration. As water 
doth purifjr and cleanse the body so wilt Thou 
through the symbolical use of this water, purify 
and purge and cleanse the soul of all unright- 
eousness of thought, of motive, and intent. 
Give us a new vision of the sacredness of 
human life as we accept these deep and solemn 
obligations, and as we promise a new and 
deeper devotion to Thyself, and a forsaking of 
our sins, may we have a real, deep, and vital 
experience of the washing of regeneration. 

(In the case of a young person, the minister 
shall read this.) 

J^ISTEN to the narrative of Jesus in the Gos- 
pel, (Mark 10: 13) And they brought young 
children unto Him that He should touch them, 
and His disciples rebuked those that brought 
them. But when Jesus saw it He was much 
displeased, and said unto them, "Suffer the 



78 BIBLE HEALING PRAYER BOOK 

little children, to come unto me, and forbid 
them not, for of such is the Kingdom of 
Heaven. Verily, I say unto you, whosoever 
shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a 
little child, he shall not enter therein." And 
He took them up in His arms, put His hands 
upon them and blessed them. 

Beloved, do you both assume the right 
and the obligation of Christian discipleship. 
and do you promise to rear him up in the nurture 
and admonition of the Lord? 
Answer. I do. 
(In the case of an adult, the minister shall read this.) 

LISTEN to the narrative of Jesus in the Gos- 
pel. (Jno. 3:1.) 

There was a man of the Pharisees, named 
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; the same came 
to Jesus by night, and said unto Him, Rabbi, 
we know that thou art a teacher, come from 
God, for no man can do these miracles that 
thou doest except God be with him. Jesus an- 
swered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say 
unto thee, except a man be born again, he can- 
not see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith 
unto him, How can a man be born, when he is 
old? Can he enter a second time into his 
mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, 
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man 
be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot 
enter into the Kingdom of God; That which is 
born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of 
the spirit is spirit. 

Beloved, being born of the spirit do you as- 
sume for yourself the obligation of Christian 
discipleship, and do you promise to renounce 
your sins and live a true and Godly life, through 
Jesus Christ, your Saviour? 

Answer — I do. 



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Then shall the minister say, as he baptizes the person. 

M. — I baptize thee in the name of the Father, 
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. And 
now may the peace of God which passeth all 
understanding, keep your heart and mind, your 
body and soul in the love of God and in perfect 
health, and harmony with Him. In Jesus' name.* 
Amen. 



D 



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A Suggested 

SERVICE OF ADMINISTRATION 
OF COMMUNION 



III. 

The Minister shall say: 

EARLY beloved, hear the words of the 
Holy Communion: (I Cor. 11: 23.) For I 
have received of the Lord that which also I 
delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the 
same night in which he was betrayed, took 
bread. 

24. And when He had given thanks, He 
brake it, and said, Take eat; this is my body, 
which is broken for you; this do in remem- 
brance of me. 

25. After the same manner also He took the 
cup, when He had supped, saying, This cup is 
the new testament in my blood; this do ye, as 
oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 

26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and 
drink this cup ye do shew the Lord's death till 
he come. 

27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, 
and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, 
shall be guilty of the body and blood of the 
Lord. 

28. But let a man examine himself, and so 
let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 

29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworth- 
ily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, 
not discerning the Lord's body. 

30. For this cause many are weak and sickly 
among you, and many sleep. 



SERVICE FOR COMMUNION 81 

31. For if we would judge ourselves, we 
should not be judged. 

32. But when we are judged, we are chastened 
of the Lord, that we should not be condemned 
with the world. 

33. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come 
together to eat, tarry one for another. 

34. And if any man hunger, let him eat at 
home; that ye come not together unto condem- 
nation. And the rest will I set in order when 
I come. 

Dearly beloved, whereas acting in His name 
and by His authority, I am now to give to you 
these elements, representing His own blood 
shed for remission of sins of your sinning soul, 
and His own body broken for the healing of 
your broken body, 

LET US PRAY FOR GOD'S BLESSING. 

Blessed Master of us all, it is with truly peni- 
tent hearts that we would come unto this Thy 
feast. Help us to examine ourselves and purge 
us of all iniquity, so that we shall not come to 
thy table unworthily. Grant that we may truly 
discern the Lord's body, which was broken for 
our physical restoration, and His blood which 
was shed for our spiritual re-instatement. May 
we fully accept .His Calvary Atonement as 
meeting all the necessities of our needy human- 
ity — both for body and for soul. And being 
healed in body and forgiven in soul through 
Him who carried our sins and bore our sick- 
nesses, may we not suffer nor longer pine away, 
but rejoice and be exceedingly glad and praise 
Thy name in strength forevermore. Through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Beloved, — 

Take this token of our blessed Lord's body, 
broken for your body's healing. In remem- 
brance of His death, eat now and evermore the 



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bread of life which cometh down out of heaven 

of which if a man eat he shall hunger no more. 

(Each 1 person shall respond as follows:) 

I accept now this token of my blessed Lord's 
body, broken for my own body's healing. Com- 
memorating His death, I shall eat now and 
evermore the bread of life which cometh down 
from above, that I shall never hunger any more, 
even as He said. 

The Minister shall say: 

Take this token of our blessed Lord's blood, 
shed for remission of your sins. In remem- 
brance of His death, drink now and evermore 
from the spring of living water, welling up 
into eternal life, of which if a man drink he 
shall never more thirst. 

Each person shall respond as follows: 

I accept now this token of my blessed Lord's 
blood, shed for remission of my sins. Com- 
memorating His death, I shall drink now and 
evermore from the freely flowing fountain of 
life, that I shall never thirst any more, even as 
He said. 

(The minister shall here serve the bread and wine, 
either in person or through the elder officers at the altar, 
or if quite impractical, in other places as the privacy 
of home, hospital, battlefield or other where. A verse of 
a hymn is here appropriate.) 

Then the Minister shall say: 

Arise, and go in peace, and the blessing of 
God go with you. May we imitate that former 
company which upon completion of the Lord's 
last supper, sang a hymn and went out. 

Hymn— "Blest be the Tie." 

Benediction. 

Now the God of peace,, that brought again 
from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shep- 



SERVICE FOR COMMUNION 83 

herd of the sheep, through the blood of the 
everlasting covenant, 

Make you perfect in every good work, to do 
His will, working in you that which is well 
pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to 
whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 



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A Suggested 

SERVICE FOR MARRIAGE 



IV. 

WE are assembled my beloved, in the pre- 
sence of God, and of these people, to 
unite this man and this woman in the bonds of 
Holy Marriage. It is a situation to be held 
sacred and in all honor by us, as it was by 
Christ and His disciples, and therefore must be 
entered into carefully, prayerfully and deliber- 
ately. If any one knows of any reason or 
impediment standing in the way of a lawful 
marriage of these people, he is challenged 
now to tell it openly. 

If either of you possesses any such know- 
ledge or belief you also are now challenged to 
tell it openly. . . No one showing any cause 
of hindrance, before God we believe the way is 
clear, and the sacred ceremony will proceed. 

But first, let us ask Divine approval. 

O Lord of Life, and Love, Thou hast created 
this attachment, and this desire of these people 
to live together. Bless and purify them. Guard 
and sanctify them, and teach them- the spirit of 
Christian sacrifice and yielding, for the sake of 
love, and give them Thy benediction now and 
evermore. Amen. 

M. — Wilt thou take this woman to be thy 
loving, lawful wife, and promise to live together 
in harmony and love, loyalty and honour, as it 
is evident God intended so to be? 

The man shall answer. 
I will. 



SERVICE FOR MATRIMONY 



N. — Wilt thou take this man to be thy loving 
lawful husband and promise to live together in 
harmony and love, loyalty and honour, as it is 
evident God intended so to be? 

The woman shall answer. 

I will. 

Then shall the Minister say: 
The man and woman joining hands shall each 
pledge their troth, repeating after the minister. 
I, M. — take thee N. — to be my lawful wedded 
wife. I promise to love you and to cherish you, 
in loyalty and purity, in whatever circumstance 
of life, as God Himself intended it to be. 

Hands to be loosed, and clasped again. 

I, N. — take thee M. — to be my lawful wedded 
husband, I promise to love you and to cherish 
you, in loyalty and purity, in whatever circum- 
stance of life, as God Himself intended it to be. 

L,oosing hands, the man shall give the woman a ring. 

The minister shall then take it, returning it to the man, 
who shall put it on the third finger of the woman's left 
hand, saying after the minister: 

With this ring I wed thee, with all my 
love, I do endow thee. In the name of the 
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 
Amen. 

The Minister shall say: 

I pronounce you man and wife. And may 
the blessings of Almighty God, the Father, 
Son, and Holy Spirit, smile upon you, and so 
favour you, that your lives may be a constant 
benediction, for Jesus' sake. Amen. 



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BIBLE HEALING PRAYER BOOK 

A Suggested 

SERVICE 

FOR HEALING INTERCESSION 

V. 

The Minister shall say: 

EARLY Beloved: Forasmuch as all men are 
subject to the infirmities of the flesh, and 
such infirmities are a source of constant burden 
and vexation; our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 
hath both by example and precept clearly- 
taught us that it is our privilege to be well and 
strong, both in body and in soul, He Himself 
having taken our infirmities, and borne our 
sicknesses, according to the Scripture, I be- 
seech of you with me to call upon God the Father, 
through our Lord Jesus Christ, that of His 
bounteous goodness He will grant to these per- 
sons present that health of soul and of body 
for which their spirit longs and that they may 
be anointed with the Holy Ghost, and thus may 
be made well and strong. 

Let us pray. 

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, Giver 
of health and strength, and Helper of all who 
look to Thee, we now come to Thee in behalf 
of Thine afflicted children; we pray that Thou 
wilt mercifully look upon these, and by Thy 
Spirit impart the healing virtue by which they 
may be rid of their infirmities, and may be en- 
abled to glorify Thee in their bodies and in their 
spirits, which are Thine. Through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Amen. 

Then shall the Minister say: 

Hear the words of the Healing Bible. 

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is 
within me; bless His Holy Name. Bless the 



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Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His bene- 
fits; Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who 
healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy 
life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with 
loving kindness and tender mercies; who satis- 
fieth thy mouth with good things, so that thy 
youth is renewed like the eagle's. Ps. 103. 

And when Jesus was come into Peter's house. 
He saw His wife's mother lying sick of a fever. 
And He touched her hand, — and the fever left 
her; and she arose and ministered unto them. 
And when even was come they brought unto 
Him many possessed with demons; and He cast 
out the spirits with a word, and healed all that 
were sick; that it might be fulfilled which was 
spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying, Himself 
took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. 
(Matt. 8: 14-17). 

And He called unto Him the Twelve, and 
began to send them forth by two and two; and 
He gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 
And they went out, and preached that men 
should repent. And they cast out many de- 
mons, and anointed with oil many that were 
sick, and healed them. (Mark 6: 7, 12, 13). 

He that believeth on me, the works that I 
do shall he do also, and greater works' than 
these shall he do, because I go unto the Father, 
and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that 
will I do that the Father may be glorified in 
the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name 
I will do it. John 14: 12. 

Then the Minister shall speak to the persons to 
be prayed for, thus: 

Well-Beloved, you are here desiring to 
receive Healing of God; you have prayed 
with us, that our Lord Jesus Christ would 
vouchsafe to bless you; to release you of your 
bodily ailment, and to impart unto you of His 



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own full life. You have heard also, how He 
hath promised in His Holy Word, to grant and 
do all those things which we have prayed for; 
which promises, He for His part, will most 
surely keep and perform. 

Therefore, upon these promises made by our 
Lord, you also must faithfully, for your part, 
promise and answer to the following questions: 

Questions and Answers: 
Do you unreservedly yield yourself, spirit, 
soul, and body, all you are, and all you have, 
to the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour from 
your sins, as your Comforter in your sorrow, 
as your Healer of your infirmity? 

Answer: I do. 

Do you unqualifiedly believe that the Christ 
who healed the sick when here on earth is the 
same today, and that He is able and willing 
to heal you? 

Answer: I do. 

Is it your desire just now to be prayed for in 
the Name of the Lord, that you may thus obey 
Him, and that He may bless and heal you? 

Answer: It is. 

Then shall the Minister say, 

O God, we beseech Thee in the name of the 
Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost ; for the 
healing of this mortal body, in accordance with 
Thy Covenant. Amen. 

(Then the Minister shall offer an extemporary prayer, 
embodying the individual's need, or the following formal 
prayer.) 

Merciful Father, heal this thy penitent and 
grateful child, and may he henceforward go in 
peace and strength and health. In Jesus' 
Name. Amen. 



SERVICE OF DEDICATION 



A Suggested 

SERVICE OF DEDICATION 

for 
THE HEALING MINISTRY 

VI. 

The Minister shall say: 

TAND forth and hear ye the sacred Scrip- 



S 



ture of Jesus Christ your Saviour. 
Luke 9: 1. Then he called his twelve dis- 
ciples together and gave them power and 
authority over all devils and to cure diseases. 

2. And he sent them to preach the Kingdom 
of God and to heal the sick. 

3. And he said unto them, Take nothing for 
your journey, neither staves nor scrip, neither 
bread nor money, neither have two coats apiece. 

4. And whatsoever house ye enter into, there 
abide and thence depart. 

5. And whosoever will not receive you 
when ye go out of that city, shake off the very 
dust from your feet for a testimony against 
them: 

6. And they departed, and went through the 
towns, preaching the gospel and healing every- 
where. 

Now inasmuch as Jesus did strictly command 
the disciples of His day to practise the full 
and double gospel, — to preach the Kingdom of 
God and to heal the sick; and inasmuch as those 
disciples did strictly obey Him, going through 
the towns preaching the gospel and healing 
everywhere; and inasmuch as you are here and 
now signifying your own determination to like- 
wise strictly obey His commandment; hear 
ye the further gospel. 



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1. (I. Cor. 12: 1.) Now concerning spiritual 
gifts, Brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 

2. Ye know that ye were gentiles, carried 
away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were 
led. 

3. Wherefore, I give you to understand, that 
no man speaking by the spirit of God calleth 
Jesus accursed: And that no man can say that 
Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 

4. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the 
same spirit. 

5. And there are differences of administra- 
tions, but the same Lord. 

6. And there are diversities of operations, but 
it is the same God which worketh all in all. 

7. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given 
to every man, to profit withal. 

8. For to one is given by the Spirit, the word 
of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge 
by the same spirit; 

9. To another faith, by the same Spirit; 
to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit. 

Averring and confessing that God hath done 
this, as He said, are you prepared to undergo 
the solemn obligation and weighty responsi- 
bility of being a Minister of Healing, as pro- 
vided in the Bible, and to avow a blameless 
life? (I am). 

Let us pray. 

Father of all Mercy touch Thou Thine obed- 
ient servant with a coal from off Thine altar, 
that his life may flame and blaze with fire for 
Thee and for Thy cause. Make him a veri- 
table crusader. Give him a very passion for 
saving the souls of men, and for healing their 
bodies. Grant unto him and unto them to 
whom he ministers that faith which shall re- 
move mountains and which shall make men 



SERVICE OF DEDICATION 



perfectly whole. Touch him and bless him and 
sanctify him and guide him into all truth, in 
this blessed, sweet and holy service, for Jesus' 
sake. Amen. 

John x: 1-15. 

1. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that 
entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but 
climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief 
and robber. 

2. But he that entereth in by the door is the 
shepherd of the sheep. 

3. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep 
hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by 
name and leadeth them out. 

4. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, 
he goeth before them, and the sheep follow 
him: for they know his voice. 

5. And a stranger will they not follow, but 
will flee from him; for they know not the voice 
of strangers. 

6. This parable spake Jesus unto them; but 
they understood not what things they were 
which he spake unto them. 

7. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, 
verily, I say unto you I am the door of the 
sheep. 

8. All that ever came before me are thieves 
and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 

9. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, 
he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and 
find pasture. 

10. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, 
and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they 
might have life, and that they might have it 
more abundantly. 

11. I am the good shepherd: the good shep- 
herd giveth his life for the sheep. 

12. But he that is a hireling, and not the shep- 
herd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the 



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wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; 
and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth 
the sheep. 

13. The hireling fleeth, because he is a hire- 
ling, and careth not for the sheep. 

14. I am the good shepherd, and know my 
sheep, and am known of mine. 

15. As the Father knoweth me, even so know 
I the Father: and I lay down my life for the 
sheep. 

Auditors and witnesses, you have heard this 
one's avowal, to preach the gospel and to heal 
the sick, and to live a blameless life. Will you 
dedicate him (her) a Bible Healing Minister (or 
a Bible Healer). What say you? (We will.) 

To the Candidate : 

Will you diligently obey the Bible and keep 
the precepts and harmonious spirit of this 
Gospel? (I will.) 

You are then to kneel and be anointed, and 
dedicated to this great office. See thou keep it 
worthily, as becometh a good servant of Jesus 
Christ, to whom you shall one day give account. 

(Here the candidate will kneel and receive 
anointing, with laying-on-of-hands in the 
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 
Holy Ghost.) 



FOR THE 

HEALING ELDERSHIP 

INASMUCH as our Lord Jesus Christ while 
here on earth Himself continually practised 
this Bible Healing Ministry, and since He re- 
peatedly gave commandment to and through 
His Disciples and Pupils and Elders, for the 



FOR THE HEALING ELDERSHIP 93 

perpetuation of this blessed practise in the 
world and Church, therefore, we also as true 
and faithful disciples ought to well attend the 
Scriptural requirement. Luke 9: 1. "Then he 
called his twelve disciples together, and gave 
them power and authority over all devils and 
to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the 
Kingdom of God and to heal the sick." 

Following in all good conscience this com- 
mandment, we do therefore in this solemn place, 
and now openly and publicly, proclaim you, 
who hast already shown yourself a true and 
faithful follower, and do here appoint you, a 
Healing Elder, set apart in full surrender, to 
be used of God in this blessed Bible Healing 
Ministry, and require that you accept the office 
now, and openly in public. Do you so accept. 
(I do.) 

Take this office then and receive now 
authority to carry out this work of Elder and 
to obediently pray for the Healing of the sick. 
In the blessed name of Jesus of Nazareth. 
Amen. 

Let us pray. 

Healer of the human soul, and healer of the 
body; Jesus Christ, who maketh men whole, — 
we invoke Thy blessing and Thy Healing 
power upon this Holy Elder. And let him be 
found ever faithful through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. Amen. 



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A Suggested 

SERVICE FOR FUNERALS 

VII. 

JESUS said, I am the resurrection and the 
life. He that believeth in me though he 
were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever 
livcth and believeth in me shall never die. 
John 11: 25. 

I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, 
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 
Even so saith the spirit, for they rest from 
their labours. Rev. 14: 13. 

The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away, 
blessed be the name of the Lord, Job. 1: 21. 
We brought nothing into the world, and it is 
certain we can carry nothing out. I Tim. 6: 7. 

I know that my redeemer liveth, and that 
he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. 
Job. 19: 25. 

Lord make me to know mine end, and the 
measure of my days what it is. Ps. 39: 4. 
90th Psalm 

1. Lord, thou hast been our dwellingplace in 
all generations. 

2. Before the mountains were brought forth, 
or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the 
world, even from everlasting to everlasting, 
thou art God. 

3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and say- 
est, Return, ye children of men. 

4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but 
as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in 
the night. 

5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; 
they are as a sleep; in the morning they are 
like grass which groweth up. 



SERVICE FOR FUNERALS 95 

6. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth 
up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and 
by thy wrath are we troubled. 

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, 
our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 

9 For all our days are passed away in thy 
wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told. 

10. The days of our years are threescore 
years and ten; and if by reason of strength they 
be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour 
and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly 
away. 

11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? 
even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 

12 So teach us to number our days, that we 
may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

13 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it re- 
pent thee concerning thy servants. 

14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we 
may rejoice and be glad all our days. 

15 Make us glad according to the days where- 
in thou hast afflicted us,, and the years wherein 
we have seen evil. 

16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, 
and thy glory unto their children. 

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God 
be upon us; and establish thou the work of our 
hands upon us, yea the work of our hands es- 
tablish thou it. 

1st Cor. 15: 20-28 

20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, 
and become the first fruits of them that slept. 

21 For since by man came death, by man 
came also the resurrection of the dead. 

22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ 
shall all be made alive. 

23 But every man in his own order: Christ 



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the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's 
at his coming. 

24. Then cometh the end, when he shall have 
delivered up the kingdom to God, even the 
Father; when he shall have put down all rule, 
and all authority and power. 

25 For he must reign, till he hath put all 
enemies under his feet. 

26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death. 

27 For he hath put all things under his feet. 
But when he saith, All things are put under 
him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which 
did put all things under him. 

28. And when all things shall be subdued 
unto him, then shall the Son also himself be 
subject unto him that put all things under him, 
that God may be all in all. 



Commitment 

Inasmuch as Almighty God hath removed 
our beloved brother from our midst, we now 
commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, 
ashes to ashes, dust to dust, but know this to 
be only a shadow of the reality and that the 
now corruptible shall put on incorruption and 
the now mortal shall put on immortality. 

Almighty and most merciful God receive him 
and us for Jesus' sake. Amen. 



SERVICE OF RECEPTION 



A Suggested 

SERVICE OF RECEPTION 
Into Membership 

VIII 

QUESTION. What is your name? 
Answer. M. — or N. — 

Question. What is your duty? 

Answer. To love the Lord my God with all 
my heart, and love my neighbor as myself. 

Question. Knowing its difficulty, will you 
solemnly undertake and promise so to do? 

Answer. With God's help, I will. 

Question. What is your belief? 

Answer. My belief is on the Lord Jesus 
Christ that I may be saved. 

Question. What is your hope? 

Answer. My hope is in God. 

Question. Do you believe in Jesus Christ as 
the full atonement for both your sickness and 
your sin, and in Bible Healing wherein Christ is 
Saviour of the body, as well as of the soul? 

Answer. God being my witness, I do so be- 
lieve. 

Question. Do you accept Him now for this 
complete and full salvation? 

Answer. I so now accept Him. 

Question. Do you declare upon your honor 
that you will truly represent Him and that you 
will ever ardently and faithfully advocate His 
Healing Gospel? 

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If candidate for ministry, this additional question 
should be asked and answered in the affirmative. 

Question. Do you solemnly swear upon your 
sacred oath that while you are a member of this 
ministry you will preach His gospel and heal the 
sick both together, as He said, always and 
everywhere, propagating this ministry unceas- 
ingly, thus obeying the requirement of Jesus' 
Gospel. 

Answer. As God is true, I will. 

You will place your hands upon the open Bible 
and repeat after me, while we call God to wit- 
ness : 

Searcher of every heart, Tryer of every soul, 
"Reader of every mind, my motives are an open 
book to Thee, Thou seest the deepest depths 
of my soul. Show me if there be any falsity in 
me. Root out any fickle unworthiness. Hold 
me as a certain anchor to these my solemn 
pledges while my life shall last. May I never 
permit myself under any circumstances to break 
my vow, or to dishonor Thee by indolence, for- 
getfulness or deliberately, but always and at all 
times, in season and out of season, actively to 
push and advocate this Healing Gospel. So 
Help me God. 

Let Us Pray 
Almighty and most merciful Father, Look 
down upon us as we wait before Thee. In our 
own strength we have at best the power of 
weakness; but in Thee, O Lord, do we put our 
trust. Thou canst make us strong and true and 
faithful, to all our obligations. Thou canst give 
us that zeal and ardent passion to propagate 
Thy Truth and to bring men and women and 
little children to Thy feet and to the glorious 
realization that Thou dost have a full and sav- 
ing gospel, for the body and the soul, sufficient 



SERVICE OF RECEPTION 



for all our needs. Thou forgivest all our ini- 
quities, Thou Healest all our diseases. Thou 
hast sent us out saying, "Go ye into all the 
world and preach the gospel, . . and these 
signs shall follow them that believe, They shall 
lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. 
The prayer of faith shall save the sick and God 
shall raise him up. Thy manifold promises are 
for the whole man — certain and sure. Conse- 
crate us now, and set us apart for Thee. In 
Jesus' Name. Amen. 



Service of 

Healing Hymns 

To Old Tunes 



SERVICE OF HEALING HYMNS 



I. 

JUBILEE HYMN 

Tune— Harwell 

1. As with thanks and adoration, 

Now Thy people come to Thee, 
Holy Father let Thy blessing, 

Crown this year of jubilee. 
Freed from sin, our souls victorious, 
Freed from pain our bodies whole, 
Life is now existence glorious, 
Healed in body and in soul. 

2. Lord of Hosts whose sway victorious, 

Countless worlds and space enfolds, 
Angel throngs Thy sceptre glorious, 

Own and bless while cycles roll, 
Ceaseless there the echoes ring, 

Glory to our Lord and King. 
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen! 

3. Friend of friends, whose love excelling, 

Drives our doubts and fears away, 
In our souls the gloom dispelling, 

Sheds the hope of endless day, 
Thine the balm for hearts that weep, 

Thine the care that knows no sleep, 
Bending o'er beloved Israel, 

Thou Thy faithful vigils keep ! 

4. God supreme, the just and holy, 

Jesus tender friend and true, 
Holy Ghost our guest abiding, 

Three in one all ages through. 
Thee the church proclaims her King, 
Thee we serve with glad acclaim. 
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen! 
— Mother Benson, Portland, Oregon. 

: Words in Italic are substituted 



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II. 

HEALING HERALDS GO 
Tune — Ye Christian Heralds 

1. Ye Healing Heralds go proclaim, 
The gospel truth in Jesus' Name, 
To every creature take it all, 
Withhold it not from great or small. 

2. These signs shall follow them that trust, 
For He has promised and they must, 
Sin shall be pardoned, sickness healed, 
His untold power you shall wield. 

3. He'll guard you on the risky road, 
And help you with your heavy load, 
Give joy to soul and strength to limb, 
If you but faithful prove to Him. 

4. Ye Healing Heralds speed away, 
And work His work while it is day, 
And heal the sick as He commands, 
And preach the gospel to all lands. 

III. 

HE SAYS HE WILL HEAL ME 
Tune — For You I Am Praying 
1. I have a Master, a Healer and Saviour, 
A friend who can help me when everything 
fails, 
And He my Companion in loneliness cheers 
me, 
I've found I can trust Him when naught 
else avails. 

Chorus. 
He says He will heal me, He says He will 

heal me, 
He says He will heal me, His word I be- 
lieve. 



SERVICE OF HEALING HYMNS 105 

2. I have a helper of infinite power, 

And infinite strength which I need for the 

fray, 
He touches my soul and my body with 

healing, 
And in Him I have life abundant today. 

3. I've a Redeemer who bought my deliv'rance, 

Who bare all my sickness and sorrow 
while here, 
And since my redemption, was paid for 

and purchased, 
Then why should I pine, suff'ring year 

after year? 

4. I have a happiness, health, and abundance, 

With Him as my Healer, I all things 
can do, 
I now sing His praises, enjoy all His bless- 
ings, 
Belov'd will you take Him as your Healer, 
too? 

IV. 

WE'RE TRUSTING IN JESUS 

Tune — Marching to Zion 

1. Come ye that trust in God, 
For meeting all your needs, 
We'll tread the path the Saviour trod, 
We'll tread the path the Saviour trod, 

And live in golden deeds. 

And live in golden deeds. 

Chorus. 
We're trusting in Jesus, 
He is the life-giving Jesus, 
We're trusting ever in Jesus, 
Our Healer and Saviour and Guide. 



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2. O could we always do, 
The things the Master taught, 

And could we preach the healing faith, 
And could we preach the healing faith, 
All else would count but naught. 
All else would count but naught. 

3. We look to Him ourselves, 
For healing saving power, 

And then go forth to give it out, 

And then go forth to give it out, 

To others hour by hour, 

To others hour by hour. 

4. So may we ever live 
That others seeing us, 

Will know that we are healed and 

saved, 

Will know that we are healed and 

saved, 

And Jesus lives in us, 

And Jesus lives in us. 

V. 
O HEALING LAND 

Tune — Beulah Land 

1. I've reached the Mount of trust in God, 
I fear no more the chast'ning rod, 
For living in His cloudless day, 
I find all fear has passed away. 

Chorus. 

Healing land, sweet Healing land, 
As on thy lofty peak I stand, 

1 look around, and joy I see, 

I hear from glad souls waiting me, 
The happy shouts of victory, 
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2. The Master comes and talks to me. 
And gives me joy where'er I be, 
He takes away the sin of soul, 
And makes my body fully whole. 

3. O sweetest gift of God to man, 
Devised by His most loving plan, 
Through Jesus Christ, Who makes me whole. 
In body, as in mind and soul. 

4. That land is just, before your eyes, 
Your hand today may have the prize. 
For health and joy eternally, 

Are yours if He is within Thee. 

VI. 
O CHRIST TO LIVE 

Tune — All Hail the Power 

1. O Christ to live as Thou didst live, 

And always doing good, 
Not serving self but giving all, 
Dispensing heavenly food. 

2. O Christ to think as Thou didst think, 

And have a holy mind, 
To plan the burdens to be borne, 
For all of humankind. 

3. O Christ to teach as Thou didst teach, 

Rising above men's creeds, 
To preach the Kingdom, heal the sick, 
And help men in their needs. 

4. O Christ to walk as Thou didst walk, 

With men where'er they be, 
In noisy cities, troubled lives, 
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5. O Christ to pray as Thou didst pray, 

With sweating blood all night, 

Availing prayer which got response, 

And changed the gloom to light. 

6. O Christ to love as Thou didst love, 

Where hatred is so rife, 
A love so great that for our sakes, 
Thou didst lay down Thy life. 

7. To live, to love, to work, to pray, 

To preach as well as heal. 
This is my aim, O Christ of God, 
This is my highest weal. 

VII. 
TO HIM FOR EVERY NEED 

Tune — My Hope is Fixed 

1. My hope is fixed on Him alone, 
For me in full He does atone, 

He gives me freedom from all pain, 
He saveth me from sin and stain. 

Chorus. 

To Him for every need I pray, 
In Him my lack all fades away, 
In Him my lack all fades away. 

2. Since I have Him to live is joy, 
Without Him life was base alloy, 
And since this new life I began, 
He now decides my every plan. 

3. He brings me joy when I am sad, 
In sorrow Jesus makes me glad, 
In sickness He restores to health, 

And gives my soul the highest wealth. 



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VIII. 
FORWARD HEALING SOLDIERS 

Tune — Onward Christian Soldiers 

1. Forward Healing Soldiers, 

Hasting far and near, 
Take this Gospel message, 

Quelling every fear, 
Tell men if they trust Him, 

Seeking Him in prayer, 
God will heal and save them, 

And their burdens bear. 

2. On ye Healing soldiers, 

Going as to war, 
Versus sin and sickness, 

Whether near or far, 
Sorrow will be banished, 

Poverty decrease, 
Come a reign of gladness, 

With the Prince of Peace. 

3. Charge ye Healing soldiers, 

'Gainst the hosts of doubt, 
Smite, O Lord, indiff'rence, 

Put Thy foes to rout, 
Fulfill all Thy precepts, 

Seal Thy promise now, 
Save and heal Thy children, 

Who believe Thy vow. 

IX. 
CHRIST OF MERCY 
Tune — Rock of Ages 
1. Christ of Mercy, died for me, 
May I find myself in Thee, 
May Thy body and Thy blood, 
Sacrificed for all men's good, 
Free, my body and my soul, 
From their ills and make me whole. 



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2. My Redeemer, Great is He, 
He has power to set me free, 
Both from sin and also pain, 
Leaves me not in either chain, 
Since He promised full release, 
I have health and perfect peace. 

3. While we play this double role. 
Living in body and soul, 

We must have Thy fullest aid, 
For this life which Thou hast made, 
So Thou gave Thy flesh and blood, 
For our soul's and body's good. 

4. Lamb of God, the sign remains, 
Passover of Egypt's chains, 
Blood to save and flesh restore. 
Soul redeem and body cure, 
One atonement makes me whole, 
Both my body and my soul. 

X. 
MIGHTY GOD OUR HEALER 

Tune— Holy, Holy, Holy 

1. Holy, Holy, Holy, Mighty God our Healer, 

Night and morn, and all the day, 
Our praise shall sound to Thee, 

Thou dost make us Holy, Thou dost heal 
our weakness, 
Mighty Saviour, Healer, 

Blessed One in Three. 

2. Holy, Holy, Holy, Mighty God our Healer, 

Words and works Thou didst perform, 
And ever made this plea; 

We must ever follow, always preaching 
healing, 
We must give Thy gospel. 

Thine own reality. 



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Holy, Holy, Holy, Mighty God our Healer, 
Thou dost trust Thy servants true, 

To carry forth Thy cause, 
Thou dost give all-power, 

There is none outside Thee, 

To the ones who love thy truth, 
And obey Thy laws. 



XI. 

IN THE CROSS OF JESUS 
Tune — In the Cross of Christ 

1. In the cross of Jesus trusting, 

Sin and sickness are atoned, 
Why should we then go on pining, 
For the blessings which He owned? 

2. Since His healing and forgiving, 

Are vouchsafed us evermore, 
Dying has been turned to living, 
Sin and pain need be no more. 

3. Faith is all He asks or urges, 

Trusting prayer, for everything, 

Riches, health and joy and pardon. 

Faith in Christ will truly bring. 

4. Crown of life, supreme contentment, 

All are mine but to receive, 

When I give allegiance to Him, 

When in Him I do believe. 



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XII. 

COME EVERY HEART 
Tune — Come Every Soul 

1. Come every heart bowed down with pain, 

There's healing with the Lord, 

For He will now restore again, 

When we but trust His word. 

Chorus. 
O believe him, just receive Him, 

For your healing now, 
Flesh and spirit, we inherit, 

Both He does endow. 

2. For Jesus' body and His blood, 

He gave on Calvary. 
He bare our sickness and our sin, 
To make us fully free. 

3. Forgiving sin, healing disease, 

Are promised both of God, 
And Christ was always doing this, 
As through the earth He trod. 

4. So preach the gospel, heal the sick, 

He oft was wont to say, 
Not only then, but to the end, 
I am with thee alway. 

XIII. 

FROM CALVARY'S RUGGED MOUNTAIN 

Tune — Greenland 

1. From Calvary's rugged mountain, 

Comes down the voice of God, 

For all mankind I suffer, 

And now endure the rod, 
My blood shed for remission, 

My body bruised for cure, 
To give you full deliv'rance, 
I did the cross endure. 



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The pledge was voiced by Moses, 

In those old ancient days, 
I am the Lord thy healer, 

To keep in all thy ways, 
As Moses raised the serpent, 

To heal the dying men, 
The Son of Man is lifted, 

To heal the race again. 

And David voiced the promise, 

Man's hope and pledge from God, 
He pardons all thy sinning, 

He bears for thee the rod, 
He heals all thy diseases, 

And makes thee fully whole, 
So we now have a gospel, 

For body and for soul. 

. O glorious full gospel, 

For body and for soul, 
Mankind may now accept Him, 

And be made fully whole, 
O child will you not trust Him, 

And take Him at His word, 
Receive Him as your Healer, 

Your Saviour and your Lord? 



XIV. 
I THE LORD THY HEALER 

Tune— Guide M'e O 

1. I the Lord thy Healer shall be, 
I the truth that makes you free, 
I am All in All unto Thee, 
Nothing is done without me, 
Healing Saviour, I shall make thee fully 
whole. 



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2. I have kept thee in all ages, 
I do not forsake my own, 
Prophets, Priests, and Kings and Sages, 
Have found healing at the throne. 
Common people, peasants too, are just 

the same. 

3. O my soul then now receive Him, 
When He promises thy weal, 

O Disciples don't reject Him, 
When He urges thee to heal. 
Go ye forward, preach the Kingdom, heal 
the sick. 



XV. 

PREACH THE KINGDOM, HEAL 

THE SICK 

Tune — Jerusalem My Happy Home 

1. A dozen stalwart men and true, 

Did Jesus choose of old, 
To give His Gospel to the world, 

While all the ages rolled, 
Explained to them His Word and work, 

Urging to keep it quick, 
To preach the Kingdom, so He said, 

And also heal the sick. 



Chorus. 

Go preach the Kingdom, Heal the sick, 
Was His own great concern, 

Today also, we too must go, 
And that great lesson learn. 



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2. A century went by and still, 

The 1 Word of Jesus held, 
The martyrs of the early church. 

Performed their duty well, 
Four hundred years and then alas, 

The church became corrupt, 
And so the healing dropped from sight, 

The change was quite abrupt. 

3. But preach the Kingdom, Heal the sick, 

Was still His Law and Word, 
The church in failing His command, 

Was faithless to her Lord. 
Now twenty ages have elapsed, 

Two thousand years gone by, 
He still insists the church obey, 

And do His will, or die. 

4. A million million souls await, 

The preaching healing Lord, 
The church must make the supreme choice, 

If she will heed His Word, 
Oh, as for me, and for my house, 

We now will serve His cause, 
The gospel all complete will give, 

And keep all of His laws. 

XVI. 

COME UNTO ME 

Tune — Saved By Grace 

. Come unto me, ye weary soul, 

The voice of Jesus calls to you, 

Too long you've paid the fearful toll, 

Of false concepts instead of true. 

Chorus. 
But I will give you peace and rest, 

From sin and sickness, doubt and fear 
If you will change your life with Me, 
For joy complete without a tear. 



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2. Come unto Me ye heavy lade, 

His voice to you is sweet and low, 
Take up My yoke, and learn of Me, 
For I am meek and love you so. 

3. Come unto Me, and have your rest, 

Your lot is hard, but Mine is light, 
And I will take, and heal your life, 

I'll guide you through the darkest night. 



XVII. 

THE VOICE OF JESUS 

Tune — I Heard the Voice 

1. The voice of Jesus sweetly said, 

My child come follow me, 
Go preach the kingdom, heal the sick. 
So I will be with thee. 

2. I heard His voice, but waited long, 

Not seeing need of haste, 
But thousands died in sin and pain, 
And then I saw the waste. 

3. The voice of Jesus said again, 

My child one thing you need, 

Your spirit must be born again, 

Before My voice you heed. 

4. A deadly illness came to me, 

And wracked this frame of mine, 
But for His Grace I would have passed, 
Beyond this realm of time. 

5. In that same hour there came to me, 

An all-pervading calm, 
And Jesus took control, and He, 
Has made my life a Psalm. 



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6. And when once more that Voice returned, 
Repeating its sweet word, 
"Go preach the kingdom, heal the sick,'' 
I now obey my Lord. 



XVIII. 
WHEN I RECALL 
Tune — When I Survey 

1. When I recall the wondrous love, 

Through which my Lord atoned for me, 
When through the suff'ring world I move, 
I think how He could set them free. 

2. If only they would trust His Word, 

Only believe He is the same, 
They would have pardon from the Lord, 
They would have healing through His 
name. 

3. Suff'ring and want would all decrease, 

Sickness and sin be done away, 
Contentment through the Prince of Peace. 
To them would come without delay. 

4. His love includeth every man, 

His healing is for you, for me, 

There's no exception to His plan. 

He maketh soul and body free. 

5. O Jesus, to Thee, then I come, 

With nothing of my own to bring, 
I lay my every merit down, 

And accept Thee, as my one King. 



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XIX. 

SWEETER STILL IS JESUS' LOVE 
Tune — My Lord and I 

1. On earth true love is stronger. 

Than any other tie, 
The love of mother, wife and child, 

All others passes by, 
It is so joyous and so free, 

So gentle, pure and mild, 
Yet sweeter still is Jesus' love ; 

For me His child. 

2. O earthly love is pure and strong, 

Yet sometimes bringeth pain, 
But Jesus' wondrous healing grace, 

Pardons your sins again. 
It cures your poverty and pain. 

As sun makes winter end, 
For sweeter still is Jesus' love, 

For you His friend. 

3. When earth and heaven meet and merge, 

And both have love as one, 
When Jesus' gospel fills the soul, 

And shines out as the sun, 
O sweet and precious is the love, 

Then to us on earth given, 
And sweeter still is Jesus' love. 

From God in heaven. 

4. Then fellow trav'ler let us pray, 

His offer not to lose, 
Betwixt the old life and the new, 

Let us now quickly choose, 
Healing in body, pardoned soul, 

A peace not known before, 
And sweeter still His love Divine. 

For evermore. 



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XX. 

THE GREAT CRUSADE 

Tune — Awake My Soul 

1. Crusaders for the Lord today, 

speed and haste ye then away, 
On you one burden He hath laid, 

To heal, and preach, the Great Crusade. 

2. Go then and preach the Great Crusade, 
In battle armor all arrayed, 

The task which through the prayer of faith, 
Shall heal and save the sick from death. 

3. O Soldiers of the Lord today, 
March forward teaching men to pray, 
Since Jesus full atonement made, 

Go forth and preach the Great Crusade. 

4. The Saviour makes you fully whole, __ 
From ills of body and of soul, 

On Calvary the price He paid, 

And so we preach this Great Crusade. 

5. Time is at hand, God's hour is struck, 
The vision gleams to those who look. 
The Church must preach and heal today, 
Ere others take its power away. 

6. Go preach the gospel, heal the sick, 
The loving Master urges quick, 

Let all men know on us is laid, 
The burden of the Great Crusade. 

7. At last when a Crusader been, 

1 hear Thy voice to enter in, 

I'll say I've not my trust betrayed, 

For I have preached Thy Great Crusade. 



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X. 

SERVICE OF HEALING SERMON 

. OUTLINES 
(Guide for Each Sunday of the Month) 

I. 

THE PLACE OF BIBLE HEALING 

IN THE CHURCH 

I speak concerning Christ and the Church 

Eph. 5: 32. 

First Sunday Morning 

CATHOLIC'S and Protestant's Original 
Points of View. 

a. Peter, according to the Catholic faith, was 

foundation of the church. 

Peter was a Healer. See Acts 3. 

b. Christ, according to Protestant faith, was 

foundation of Church. 

Christ was a Healer. See Matt. 9. 

c. Paul, at any rate, as recognized by both, 

was the supreme minister and mission- 
ary of Christianity. 

Paul was a Healer. See Acts 14: 10. 
Therefore Bible Healing was an original 
essential. 

2. The Founder of our Church repeatedly insisted 

that it be practised. "My Church." 
Matt. 4:23. Mark 16: 15. 

Matt. 10: 1. Luke 10: 9. 

Matt. 10:7. John 14: 12. 

Mark 3:14. 

3. The lapse is not an argument against, but 

for its present revival, 
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b. The days of healing were the days of 

power. 

c. The present impotence must be turned 

into power. 



II. 

THE BASIS OF THE BIBLE HEALING 

MOVEMENT 

I Pet. 3: 15 

Be ready always to give an answer, to every 
man that asketh you a reason, of the hope that 
is in you. 

First Sunday Evening 

UNIVERSAL Unrest and Dissatisfaction 
Today. 

a. Spirit of world conquest, etc. 

b. Social and Industrial Strife. 

c. Individual Dissatisfaction. 

2. The Breakdown of Other Methods. 

a. League of Nations, Genoa Conference. 

b. Socialism, etc. 

c. Individual Efforts. Christian Science, etc. 

Ethical Culture, Psycho-therapy. 
Life Extension Institute. 
Pelmanism. 
Ouija Boards, etc. 

3. God wants Healing for His children. 
How do we know? 

a. He has said so, time and again. 

b. He Himself has done it, time and again. 

c. He is blessing the effort everywhere. 



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III. 

EXAMINING THE SUPERNATURAL 
ELEMENT IN HEALING 

I Cor. 15: 44 

There is a natural body and there is a 

spiritual body 

Second Sunday Morning 

T^HE materialism which denies the super- 

■*• natural is false. 

a. The philosophy of Saduccees was incor- 

rect. 

b. The Pharisees' philosphy was correct, 

though their acts may not have been. 

c. The materialist of the present has a basic 

misconception. 

2. Both religion and life are replete with the 

supernatural. 

a. We find it all through the writings of 

the Bible. 

b. We see it constantly in the History and 

Literature of the Race. 

c. We experience it in nature and in our own 

lives. 

3. Only believers and not skeptics, could get 

help from supernatural Healing. 

a. This would be the natural conclusion of 

logic. 

b. This is the direct teaching of Jesus. Ac- 

cording to thy faith. If thou cans't be- 
lieve. 

c. This is the purpose of the advocacy of the 

system, — to make doubters believe in the 
supernatural, and to get believers into 
active faith instead of passive. 



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IV. 

WHY ANY OPPOSITION TO 
BIBLE HEALING? 

John 7: 23 

"If a man on the Sabbath Day receive cir- 
cumcision that the law of Moses be not broken, 
why are ye angry at me, because I have made 
a man every whit whole — on the Sabbath day? 

Second Sunday Evening 
TGNORANCE of the Matter. 
* a. Ignorance of what the Bible teaches. 

b, Ignorance of its methods. 

c. Ignorant of its general benefits. 

2. Prejudice against it. 

a. Often result of ignorance. 

b. Sometimes it is a dislike to get out 
of rut. 

c. Often a Religious prejudice. 

3. Ulterior interest. 



1. Economic interest. 

2. Pride and Prestige. 

3. Professionalism. 



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V. 

BIBLE HEALING TRUSTWORTHY IF 

THE BIBLE IS TRUE 

Isaiah 5: 5-11 
My word shall not return unto me void 
Third Sunday Morning 
TS the Bible true? 
•*■ a. The test of truth, — Is it possible? 

b. Is it reasonable? 

c. Is it proven? 

Then it is true for you. 

2. Is Bible the Word of God? 

If the Bible is true, then there is a God, for 

it says so. 
But is this Book His highest actual word? 

a. It states that it is. 

b. Its content shows it is. 

c. What other book rivals it? 

3. Do you put your trust in God's Word. 

a. Do you believe God is all powerful and 
true? 

b. Do you believe God loves His children? 

c. Then you must believe He will heal. 

If these questions are answered by you thus 
in the affirmative, then the conclusion is inevi- 
table that you must believe in Bible Healing, 
for it is all there, line upon line, precept upon 
precept, and the principal burden of that Holy 
Book is healing of body and of soul. If you 
believe that the Bible is not true, or that it is 
not God's Word, or if you do not put your 
trust in it, God can do nothing for you, neither 
can this book. 



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VI. 

HEALING OF SICKNESS AND 
FORGIVING OF SIN 

Mark 2: 9 

Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the 
palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, 
arise take up thy bed and walk? 

Third Sunday Evening 

jHE scoffer is ever with us. 

a. Skeptics in the scientific realm criticized 
Columbus,. Cyrus Field, etc. 

b. Skeptics in religious realm. . 

*. e., Paul accused of being mad. 

c. Skeptics in realm, of Philosophy. 

Hounded Socrates. 

2. Scoffers' pretext is changed for the occasion. 

a. I told you so — or silence. 

b. Critics objected because He helped the 

soul while helping the body. Today, 
vice-versa. 

c. To obstruct is always easier than to con- 

struct. 

3. Bold Christian treatment puts skeptic to 

rout. 

a. Jesus put both acts (pardon and healing) 

on the same basis. 

b. He put all life on this same spiritual basis. 

c. He expects His followers so to do. 



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VII. 

GOD'S PRIMAL INSTINCT OF HEALING 

Ex. 15: 26 

I am the Lord that healeth 

Fourth Sunday Morning 

CTaLLACY of "Essential Virtue in Suffering" 

a. The idea presupposes a cruel God. 

b. Such would be an unthinkable being. 

c. It contradicts the Bible Teaching. 

2. God's virtue is in the same point as man's 

ideal virtue, viz: Goodwill. 

a. Earthly Father wants children to thrive 

in body. 

b. Earthly parent desires well being of child's 

soul. 

c. Then Heavenly Father resembling earthly 

Father desires welfare of body and soul. 

3. The Divine intent for the ideal state of man, 

is Life Abundant. 

a. God intends His -children to be joyful, not 

sad. 

b. He looks upon a world of healthy people 

as very good. 

c. Jesus came to get it for them. 



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VIII. 

IMPOSSIBILITY OF PREACHING 

CHRIST'S GOSPEL WITHOUT 

THE HEALING 

Matt. 7: 21 
"Not he that sayeth . . but he that doeth 

Fourth Sunday Evening 
( HRIST never preached without healing. 

a. Statement astounds the laymen. 

b. Also surprises theologians. 

c. Bible record proves it. See Cruden's Con- 

cordance "Preach" Matt. 4: 17, Matt. 11: 
1, Mark 1: '38, Luke 4: 43 "Preaching" 
Matt. 9: 35, Mark 1: 14, Luke 8: 1, Luke 
11: 11. These are all the recorded in- 
stances of Jesus' Preaching. 

2. He never commissioned anybody else to 

preach His gospel without commanding 
them to heal. Matt. 10: 1, Matt. 28: 19, 
Mark 111: 14, Mark 16: 15, Luke 9: 1, 
Luke 10: 1. These are all the instances 
where He commissioned anyone to 
preach His Gospel. 

3. No true representative can refuse to do as 

He did and directed. 

a. We are ambassadors of Christ. 

b. We must obey the Bible. 

c. We must be found faithful. 



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IX. 

THE SECRET POWER OF THE 
MIRACLES OF HEALING REVEALED 

Matt. 17: 20 
Prayer and Fasting 
Fifth Sunday Morning 
HP HE disciple with no power 

a. Contradictory phrase. 

b. Why do we not get results today? 

c. Where the church falls down. 

2. The way to become endued with Power. 

Tarry ye until ye be endued with power from on high. 
Luke 24: 49 

a. We try to generate the power in ourselves. 

b. Human wisdom or cleverness is not 

power. 

c. The only source is On High. 

3. Prayer, the avenue of Power. 

a. Prayer is not saying words to God. 

b. It is not merely asking something, but 

getting in harmony with Him. Secret 
prayer. 

c. The sacrificial value of fasting also. 



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X. 

PHARISEES RELIGION 

OF FINE WORDS INSTEAD OF 

HEALING DEEDS 

Matt. 23: 2 

The scribes and pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 
All things therefore whatsoever they bid you 
observe, that observe and do; but do not after 
their works, for they say, and do not. 

Fifth Sunday Evening 

' HE virtue of obedient faith. 



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The Pharisees had their value. 
Interpreted Moses Laws. 

b. Law and order necessary. 

c. We must be obedient to law. 

2. But Faith without works is dead. 

a. Pharisees had the law but not the dynamic 

spirit. 

b. Right knowledge without right action is 

worse than not knowing. 

c. Danger of a religion of words and not 

works. 

3. Bible Healing transcends Oratory. 

a. World is not saved by speeches. 

b. Soundness, not sound, is the world's need. 

c. Church must begin to practise what it 

preaches. 



SECTION III. 

The Devotions 



The Public, Personal, and Topical Devotions 
can naturally be used interchangeably, thus giv- 
ing a large variety and an extensive service. 



PUBLIC SCRIPTURE READING 



PUBLIC SCRIPTURE READING 

WITH PRAYER 

FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH 

GEN. 1:1. In the beginning God created 
the heaven and the earth. 

2. And the earth was without form and void, 
and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and 
the spirit of God moved upon the face of the 
waters. 

3. And God said, let there be light, and there 
was light. 

4. And God saw the light that it was good, 
and God divided the light from the darkness. 

5. And God called the light day, and the 
darkness called He night. And the evening 
and the morning were the first day. 

Read also Genesis 2. 
Meditation — Having God, the Maker of light, 
my spirit this day is bright. 

The Daily Prayer 

Oh, Thou who art the Light of Life, who art 
from everlasting to everlasting; into our lonely, 
cold, and somber lives Thou dost send Thy 
shining warmth and radiance. Thou hast said 
to our pining souls, Let there be light — and 
thanks be to Thee, there is light. For God is 
light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we 
walk in the light as He is in the light, we have 
fellowship one with another, and the blood of 
Jesus Christ cleanseth us. He healeth all our 
diseases. And we now accept Thee in full sur- 
render, and we are now saved and healed for 
Time and Eternity. Through Jesus Christ. 
Amen. 



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SECOND DAY 

Ex. 20 — 1. And God spake all these words 
saying, 

2. I am the Lord thy God, which have 
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of 
the house of bondage. 

3. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. 

4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any 
graven image, or any likeness of anything that 
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth be- 
neath, or that is in the water under the earth. 

5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to 
them, nor serve them. For I the Lord thy 
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of 
the fathers upon the children, unto the third and 
fourth generation of them that hate me. 

6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of 
them that love me and keep my commandments. 

7. Thou shalt not take the name of the 
Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not 
hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 

8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it 
holy. 

9. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy 
work. 

10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the 
Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, 
thou nor thy son nor thy daughter; thy man- 
servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, 
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. 

11. For in six days the Lord made heaven 
and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and 
rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord 
blessed the seventh day and hallowed it. 

12. Honour thy father and thy mother; that 
thy days may be long upon the land which the 
Lord thy God giveth thee. 

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14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

15. Thou shalt not steal. 

16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against 
thy neighbor. 

17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's 
house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, 
nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor 
his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy 
neighbor's. 

Read also Deut. 32. 

Meditation — The law of God is most joyous, 
when we accept and understand it. 

The Daily Prayer 

Almighty God, our Father, help us to keep 
Thy statutes. Thou hast promised life and 
peace, for faithfulness and obedience. We trust 
in Thee, and will do Thy will, and live in Thy 
light. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



■ THIRD DAY 

Prov. 3 — 1. My son forget not my law, but 
let thine heart keep my commandments. 

2. For length of days and long life and 
peace shall they add to thee. 

3. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, 
bind them about thy neck, write them upon the 
table of thine heart. 

4. So shalt thou find favour and good under- 
standing in the sight of God and man. 

5. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and 
lean not on thine own understanding. 

6. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and 
He shall direct thy paths. 

7. Be not wise in thine own eyes, — fear the 
Lord and depart from evil. 



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8. It shall be health to thy navel, and mar- 
row to thy bones. 

9. Honour the Lord with thy substance, and 
with the first fruits of all thine increase, 

10. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty 
and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. 

Read also Eccl. 12. 

Meditation — All that I have I give to God, 
because all that He has He gives to me. 

The Daily Prayer 

Majestic and Eternal God, worthy of all 
honour and adoration, we delight to do Thy 
will and keep Thy law, Redeemed from sin and 
sorrow, disease and iniquity, our hearts do 
praise and magnify Thy name. Thou art our 
strength, and song, and life, — our only Saviour, 
Healer, Friend. Help us to go forth from this 
time on, in health and pardon, joy and peace, 
laboring for Thee in Thy great harvest field, 
And Thine be all the praise. In Jesus' name. 
Amen. 



FOURTH DAY 

Isaiah 12 — 1. And in that day thou shall say, 
O Lord, I will praise Thee; though Thou wast 
angry with me Thine anger is turned away, 
and Thou comfortedst me. 

2. Behold God is my salvation. I will trust 
and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my 
strength, and my song, He also is become my 
salvation. 

3. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water 
out of the wells of salvation. 

4. And in that day shall ye say, Praise the 
Lord, call upon His name, declare His doings 



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among the people, make mention that His name 
is exalted. 

5. Sing unto the Lord for He hath done ex- 
cellent things, this is known in all the earth. 

6. Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of 
Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in 
the midst of thee. 

Read also Isaiah 26. 

Meditation — I would be holy, because my 
Holy Father desires me so. 

The Daily Prayer 

O Thou who touched the leper and didst 
make him whole, Thou hast touched humanity 
with Thy mother-heart. Lay Thy hand upon 
thy suppliant servants and touch us into eter- 
nal life, and boundless health and youth and 
joy. Bring us back to the mighty potency of 
Calvary and bear our sorrows and all our 
griefs. Carry our sicknesses and infirmities, 
for by Thy stripes we are healed. We are re- 
deemed by Thy sacrifice and we now have sal- 
vation and perfect health through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Amen. 



FIFTH DAY 

Isaiah 25—1. O Lord Thou art my God, I 
will exalt Thee. I will praise Thy name, for 
Thou hast done wonderful things; Thy counsels 
of old are faithfulness and truth. 

2. For Thou hast made of a city a heap; of 
a defenced city a ruin; a place of strangers to 
be no city; it shall never be built. 

3. Therefore shall the strong people glorify 
thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear 
thee. 

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poor, a strength to the needy in distress, a 
refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, 
when the blast of the terrible ones is as a 
storm against Thy wall. 

5. Thou shalt bring down the noise of 
strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the 
heat with the shadow of a cloud; the branch 
of the terrible ones shall be brought low. 

6. And in this mountain "shall the Lord of 
hosts make unto all the people a feast of fat 
things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat 
things full of marrow, or wine on the lees well 
refined. 

7. And He will destroy in this mountain the 
face of the covering cast over all people and the 
veil that is spread over all nations. 

8. He will swallow up death in victory; and 
the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all 
faces, and the rebuke of His people shall He 
take away from all the earth, for the Lord 
hath spoken it. 

9. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this 
is our God. we* have waited for him and He will 
save us. This is the Lord, we have waited for 
Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His salva- 
tion. 

Also read Isaiah II. 

Meditation — I feast on the fat of the land, 
because I am the child of the King that owns 
it. 

The Daily Prayer 

God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, thou art 
our God and our Father. Early will we seek 
Thee and in the late hours we will praise Thee. 
Thou hast saved us and healed us even as Thou 
didst of old. Accept our thanksgiving, elevate 
our thinking, and purge us from all unworthi- 
ness. Through perfect surrender and pure and 



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holy faith, give us the infinite healing power. 
We shall now be perfect even as our Father in 
heaven is perfect, in Jesus' name. Amen. 



SIXTH DAY 

Isaiah 32 — 1. Behold the King shall reign 
in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judg- 
ment. 

2. And a man shall be as a hiding place from 
the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as 
rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow 
of a great rock in a weary land. 

3. The eyes of them that see shall not be 
dim, and the ears of them that hear shall 
hearken. 

4. The heart also of the rash shall under- 
stand knowledge, and the tongue of the stam- 
merers shall be ready to speak plainly. 

5. The vile person shall be no more called 
liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. 

6. For the vile person will' speak villainy, 
and his heart will work iniquity, — to practise 
hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, 
to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he 
will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 

7. The instruments also of the churl are 
evil, he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the 
poor with lying words, even when the needy 
speaketh right. 

Read also Isaiah 35. 

Meditation — My life is in the hands of a just 
and merciful Judge. 

The Daily Prayer 

Great Physician Divine, help of the helpless, 
— we have erred and strayed from Thy faith, we 



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have been guilty of grievous sin, but thou O 
Lord hast made atonement, not only for our 
sins, but for their consequences also. Thy 
blood is shed for remission of sins of my soul. 
Thy body is broken for healing of ills of my 
body, I accept Thy full atonement and therefore 
I am free, I am forgiven, cleansed and healed, 
through Jesus Christ my Lord, in whom I do 
rejoice. Amen. 



SEVENTH DAY 

Isaiah 38 — 1. In those days was Hezekiah 
sick unto death and Isaiah the prophet the son 
of Amos came unto him, and said unto him, 
Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; 
for thou shalt die, and not live. 

2. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the 
wall and prayed unto the Lord. 

3. And said, Remember now O Lord, I be- 
seech thee, how I have walked before Thee in 
truth, and with a perfect heart and have done 
that which is good in Thy sight: and Hezekiah 
wept sore. 

4. Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah 
saying, 

5. Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the 
Lord the God of David thy father, I have heard 
thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will 
add unto thy days fifteen years. 

6. And I will deliver thee and this city out 
of the hand of the King of Assyria, and I will 
defend this city. 

7. And this shall be a sign unto thee from 
the Lord that the Lord will do this thing that 
he hath spoken. 

8. Behold I will bring again the shadow of 
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dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the 
sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it 
was gone down. 

Read also Isaiah 40. 
Meditation — When I beseech the Lord in sin- 
cerity, He answers me abundantly. 

The Daily Prayer 

Blessed Jesus, son of man and Son of God, 
we trust alone in Thee. Who is there that can 
help us, and to whom else can we go? Thou 
hast the word of Eternal Life. Therefore being 
linked with Thee we are all-sufficient. We 
have health, happiness and prosperity, and we 
have glorious Salvation. Thou dost heal us 
fully now, O Christ, in Jesus' name. Amen. 



EIGHTH DAY 

Isaiah 42 — 1. Behold my servant whom I 
uphold; mine elect in whom my soul delighteth; 
I have put my spirit upon him, he shall bring 
forth judgment to the Gentiles. 

2. He shall not cry nor lift up, nor cause 
his voice to be heard in the streets. 

3. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the 
smoking flax shall he not quench; he shall bring 
forth judgment and truth. 

4. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till 
he have set judgment in the earth. And the 
isles shall wait for his law. 

5. Thus saith God the Lord, he that created 
the heavens and stretched them out; he that 
spread forth the earth and that which cometh 
out of it, he that giveth breath unto the people 
upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein. 

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ness and will hold thine hand, and will keep 
thee, and give thee for a covenant of the peo- 
ple, for a light of the Gentiles. 

7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the 
prisoners from the prison, and them, that sit 
in darkness out of the prison house. 

Read also Isaiah 52. 

Meditation — God rejoices in me when I am 
a cheerful, faithful, servant. 

The Daily Prayer 

Oh Gracious One, who openest blind eyes, 
and touchest deaf ears, and causeth the lame to 
walk, and the lost to be saved, come with Thy 
Divine strength and give us of Thine infinite 
power. Then shall we go forth to praise thy 
name and to sing aloud for joy. Thou hast 
redeemed my soul from death, my feet from 
falling and mine eyes from tears. I can now 
do all things through Christ which strength- 
ened me. In Jesus name. Amen. 



NINTH DAY 

Isaiah 53 — 1. Who hath believed our report? 
and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 

2. For he shall grow up before him as a 
tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; 
he hath no form nor comeliness and when we 
shall see him, there is no beauty that we should 
desire him. 

3. He is despised and rejected of men; a 
man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, we 
hid as it were our faces from him; he was de- 
spised and we esteemed him not. 

4. Surely he hath borne our griefs and car- 



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ried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, 
smitten of God and afflicted. 

5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, 
he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastise- 
ment of our peace was upon him, and by his 
stripes we are healed. 

6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we 
have turned every one to his own way; and the 
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 

7. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, 
yet he opened not his mouth, he is brought as 
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before 
her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his 
mouth. 

Read also Isaiah 55. 

Meditation — My suffering is now turned into 
glory through the sacrificial law. 



The Daily Prayer 

Oh Lord Christ of God, we are sometimes 
wounded and bruised and in sore situation; our 
own iniquities and shortcomings have brought 
us at times to a tragic state. But Thou O God 
art all sufficient and Thy love hast made provi- 
sion for our every need. We need redemption 
and pardon. We need restoration and healing, 
and Thou hast it all. Thou hast promised it 
to us if we believe. Lord increase our faith. 
We do believe in Thee. We accept Thee as our 
all in all. And we have Thine omnipotent life 
in us. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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TENTH DAY 

Jeremiah 26 — 1. In the beginning of the 
reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of 
Judah, came this word from the Lord, saying, 

2. Thus saith the Lord; Stand in the court 
of the Lord's house, and speak unto all the 
cities of Judah, which come to worship in the 
Lord's house, all the words that I command 
thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word: 

3. If so be they will hearken, and turn every 
man from his evil way, that I may repent me 
of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them, 
because of the evil of their doings. 

4. And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith 
the Lord; if ye will not hearken to me, to walk 
in my law, which I have set before you, 

5. To hearken to the words of my servants 
the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising 
up early, and sending them, — but ye have not 
hearkened. 

6. Then will I make this house like Shiloh, 
and will make this city a curse to all the nations 
of the earth. 

7. So the priests and the prophets and all 
the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words 
in the house of the Lord. 

8. Now it came to pass when Jeremiah had 
made an end of speaking all that the Lord had 
commanded him to speak unto all the people, 
that the priests and the prophets and all the 
people took him saying, Thou shalt surely die. 

9. Why hast thou prophesied in the name of 
the Lord, saying, This house shall be like Shi- 
loh, and this city shall be desolate without an 
inhabitant? And all the people were gathered 
against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord. 

10. When the princes of Judah heard these 
things then they came up from the king's house — 
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the entry of the new gate of the Lord's house. 

11. Then spake the priests and the prophets 
unto the princes and to all the people, saying, 
This man is worthy to die; for he hath pro- 
phesied against this city, as ye have heard with 
your ears. 

12. Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes 
and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent 
me to prophesy against this house and against 
this city all the words that ye have heard. 

13. Therefore now amend your ways and 
your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord 
your God; and the Lord will repent him of the 
evil that he hath pronounced against you. 

14. As for me, behold I am in your hand; 
do with me as seemeth good and meet unto 
you. 

15. But know ye for certain, that if ye put 
me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent 
blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and 
upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth the 
Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these 
words in your ears. 

16. Then said the princes and all the people 
unto the priests and to the prophets; This man 
is not worthy to die; for he hath spoken to us 
in the name of the Lord our God. 

Also read Psalm 23. 

Meditation — There is secret and infinite 
power in the name and contemplation of God. 

The Daily Prayer 

Gracious Redeemer, God of all Being, were it 
not for Thy loving hand and Thy sustaining 
arm, we would be overwhelmed and entirely 
cast down. But Thou dost save, and Thou dost 
heal, according to the word. There hath not 
failed one word of all thy good promise. It 



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has been yea and amen even from, everlasting. 
And thus we know that Thou wilt restore us 
now. Give us full strength of body and of soul. 
Give us perfect fulness of mind, spirit, and 
estate, The Christ of God, now dwells in us 
richly, because we trust in Thee, and Thine be 
all the glory and the praise. In Jesus' name. 
Amen. 



ELEVENTH DAY 

Ezekiel 33 — 1. Again the word of the Lord 
came unto me, saying, 

2. Son of man, speak to the children of thy 
people, and say unto them, When I bring the 
sword upon a land, if the people of the land 
take a man of their coasts, and set him for their 
watchman, 

3. If when he seeth the sword come upon 
the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the 
people: 

4. Then whosoever heareth the sound of the 
trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword 
come, and take him away, his blood shall be 
upon his own head. 

5. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and 
took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. 
But he that taketh warning shall deliver his 
soul. 

6. But if the watchman see the sword come, 
and blow not the trumpet, and the people be 
not warned; if the sword come, and take any 
person from among them, he is taken away in 
his iniquity; but his blood will I require at 
the watchman's hand. 

7. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a 
watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore 
thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and 
warn them from me. 

8. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked 



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man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not 
speak to warn the wicked from his way, that 
wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his 
blood will I require at thine hand. 

9. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of 
his way, to turn from it; if he do not turn from 
his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou 
hast delivered thy soul. 

10. Therefore, O thou son of man, speak 
unto the house of Israel; thus ye speak, saying, 
If our transgressions and our sins be upon 
us, and we pine away in them, how should we 
then live? 

11. Say unto them. As I live, saith the 
Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death 
of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from 
his way and live; turn ye, turn ye from your 
evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of 
Israel? 

12. Therefore, thou son of man, say unto 
the children of thy people, The righteousness 
of the righteous shall not deliver him in the 
day of transgression; as for the wickedness 
of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the 
day that he turneth from his wickedness; 
neither shall the righteous be able to live for 
his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. 

13. When I shall say to the righteous that 
he shall surely live; if he trust to his own 
righteousness and commit iniquity, all his 
righteousness shall not be remembered; but for 
his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall 
die for it. 

14. Again, when I say unto the wicked, 
Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, 
and do that which is lawful and right: 

15. If the wicked restore the pledge, give 
again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes 
of life, without committing iniquity; he shall 
surely live, he shall not die. 



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16. None of his sins that he hath committed 
shall be mentioned unto him; he hath done that 
which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 
Also read Psalms 19. 

Meditation — Thinking and doing right today, 
I live greatly, and rejoice. 

The Daily Prayer 

O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee must 
all flesh come. Who is there on earth beside 
Thee and whom in heaven but Thee? Who can 
save and bless and touch and heal except the 
Great Physican? O Thou Healer of our broken 
lives, mend, we beseech Thee Thy servant's 
weakness, and restore this child to perfect 
health. We trust only in Thy promise that 
"whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will 
do it. We do now receive in Thy name, Jesus, 
completeness of body and of soul. Amen. 



TWELFTH DAY 

Daniel 6: 11. Then these men assembled, 
and found Daniel praying and making suppli- 
cation before his God. 

12. Then they came near, and spake before 
the king concerning the king's decree; Hast 
thou not signed a decree, that every man that 
shall ask a petition of any God or man within 
thirty days, save of thee, O king,_ shall be cast 
into the den of lions? The king answered and 
said, The thing is true, according to the law of 
the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 

13. Then answered they and said before the 
king, That Daniel, which is of the children of 
the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O 
king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but 
maketh his petition three times a day. 

14. Then the king, when he heard those 



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words, was sore displeased with himself, and 
set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he 
laboured till the going down of the sun to de- 
liver him. 

15. Then these men assembled unto the king, 
and said unto the king, Know O king, that the 
law of Medes and Persians is, That no decree 
nor statute which the king establisheth may be 
changed. 

16. Then the king commanded, and they 
brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of 
lions. Now the king spake and said unto Dan- 
iel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, 
He will deliver thee. 

17. And a stone was brought, and laid upon 
the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it 
with his own signet, and with the signet of his 
lords; that the purpose might not be changed 
concerning Daniel. 

18. Then the king went to his palace, and 
passed the night fasting; neither were instru- 
ments of music brought before him: and his 
sleep went from him. 

19. Then the king arose very early in the 
morning, and went in haste unto the den of 
lions. 

20. And when he came to the den, he cried 
with a lamentable voice unto Daniel; and the 
king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, ser- 
vant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou 
servest continually, able to deliver thee from 
the lions? 

21. Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, 
live for ever, 

22. My God hath sent his angel, and hath 
shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt 
me; forasmuch as before Him innocency was 
found in me; and also before thee, O king, 
have I done no hurt. 

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him, and commanded that they should take 
Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel w'as 
taken up out of the den, and no manner of 
hurt was found upon him, because he believed 
in his God. 

Also read Psalm 34. 

Meditation — No evil can befall me, no plague 
touch me, because my trust is in God. 

The Daily Prayer 

Ancient of days, my King and my God, 
through the merits of Jesus Christ Thy Son, I 
plead forgiveness of the sin of my soul, and 
healing of the malady of my body. Thou know- 
est all things, Thou knowest that I love Thee. 
Thou knowest my down-sittings and mine up- 
risings, my sins and mine infirmities. Wash 
them all away with the blood of the healing 
covenant which was shed from the foundation 
of the world. Thou hast made me a new 
creature in Christ Jesus. For His sake. 
Amen. 



THIRTEENTH DAY 

Hosea 11: 1. When Israel was a child, then 
I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 

2. As they called them, so they went from 
them; they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned 
incense to graven images. 

3. I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them 
by their arms; but they knew not that I healed 
them, 

4. I drew them with cords of a man, with 
bands of love; and I was to them as they that 
take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat 
unto them. 

5. He shall not return unto the land of 
Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, be- 
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6. And the sword shall abide on his cities, 
and shall consume his branches, and devour 
them, because of their own counsels. 

7. And my people are bent to backsliding 
from me; though they called them to the Most 
High, none at all would exalt him. 

8. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how 
shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make 
thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Ze- 
boim? mine heart is turned within me, my 
repentings are kindled together. 

9. I will not execute the fierceness of mine 
anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; 
for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in 
the midst of thee; and I will not enter into the 
citv. 

10. They shall walk after the Lord: he shall 
roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the 
children shall tremble from the west. 

11. They shall tremble as a bird out of 
Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; 
and I will place them in their houses, saith the 
Lord. 

12. Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, 
and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah 
yet ruleth with God and is faithful with the 
saints. 

Also read Psalm 42. 
Meditation — The love of the Lord is my as- 
surance of healing and joy. 

The Daily Prayer 
Heal me, O God, for my soul crieth' unto 
Thee. Leaning on Thine everlasting promise, 
I know that Thou art able to do this. My faith 
looks up to Thee. Thou hast said, according to 
thy faith be it unto Thee, and my faith takes 
hold upon Thy promise now. Touch me with 
Thy healing finger and restore me to full 
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and pity, touch me as Thou didst touch the 
leper, and make me fully whole. I am trust- 
ing now, and I am strong in Thy grace and 
strength. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



FOURTEENTH DAY 

Malachi 3: 1. Behold I will send my mes- 
senger, and he shall prepare the way before me; 
and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly 
come to his temple, even the messenger of the 
covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall 
come, saith the Lord of hosts. 

2. But who may abide the day of his coming? 
and who shall stand when he appeareth? for 
he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 

3. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier 
of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, 
and purge them as gold and silver, that they 
may offer unto the Lord an offering in right- 
eousness. 

4. Then shall the offering of Judah and 
Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the 
days of old, and as in former years. 

5. And I will come near to you to judg- 
ment; and I will be a swift witness against the 
sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and 
against false swearers, and against those that 
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, 
and the fatherless, and that turn aside the 
stranger from his right and fear not me, saith 
the Lord of hosts. 

6. For I am the Lord, I change not; there- 
fore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 

7. Even from the days of your fathers ye 
are gone away from mine ordinances, and have 
not kept them. Return unto me, and I will re- 
turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye 
said, Wherein shall we return? 



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8. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have rob- 
bed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed 
thee? In tithes and offerings. 

9. Ye are cursed with a curse; for ye have 
robbed me, even this whole nation. 

10. Bring ye all the tithes into the store- 
house, that there may be meat in mine house, 
and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord 
of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of 
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there 
shall not be room enough to receive it. 

11. And I will rebuke the devourer for your 
sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of 
your ground; neither shall your vine cast her 
fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord 
of hosts. 

12. And all nations shall call you blessed; 
for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the 
Lord of hosts. 

Also read Psalms 15. 

Meditation — Gratitude and praise fill my 
heart, and therein I am greatly blest. 

The Daily Prayer 

Almighty God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, Thou hast said that if we draw nigh 
unto Thee Thou wilt also draw nigh unto us. 
We turn our faces to Thee in confidence and 
expectation. We touch the hem of Thy gar- 
ment in faith that we may be made whole. 
Lord increase our faith. Increase our hope. 
Increase our love. Without Thee we can do 
nothing, O Christ, but with Thee, we can over- 
come every obstacle. Before we call, Thou 
dost answer, and we are forgiven and made en- 
tirely whole. And Thine is the glory and the 
praise, world without .end. In Jesus' name. 
Amen. 



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FIFTEENTH DAY 
The Sermon on the Mount 

Matthew 5: 1. And seeing the multitudes 
He went up into a mountain, and when He was 
set His disciples came unto him. 

2. And He opened His mouth and taught 
them, saying: 

3. Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs 
is the Kingdom of Heaven. 

4. Blessed are they that mourn; for they 
shall be comforted. 

5. Blessed are the meek, for they shall in- 
herit the earth. 

6. Blessed are they which do hunger and 
thirst after righteousness, for they shall be 
filled. 

7. Blessed are the merciful for they shall 
obtain mercy. 

8. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they 
shall see God. 

9. Blessed are the peace makers, for they 
shall be called the children of God. 

10. Blessed are they which are persecuted 
for righteousness sake; for theirs is the King- 
dom of Heaven. 

11. Blessed are ye when men shall revile 
you, and persecute you, and shall say all man- 
ner of evil against you falsely for my sake. 

12. Rejoice and be exceeding glad; for great 
is your reward in heaven, for so persecuted 
they the prophets which were before you. 

Read also Matthew 5: 13-48. 
Meditation — When a person joyously serves 
God, he is more than repaid. 

The Daily Prayer 

We rejoice O blessed Jesus, for Thy sweet 
assurance of blessing. We exult in hardship 
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cause thereby Thou hast placed us also, in the 
list of glorious prophets. Give us the pro- 
phet's vision and the prophet's faith. Give us 
the prophet's healing touch. Give us the bright 
vision of the the Lord our God. We long to be 
so near to Thee and so much like Thee that 
We may have the healing token in large and 
gracious measure. We now may glorify Jeho- 
vah in our bodies and in our spirits which are 
thine. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



SIXTEENTH DAY 

Matt. 6: 1. Take heed that ye do not your 
alms before man to be seen of them: other- 
wise ye have no reward of your Father which 
is in heaven. 

2. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, 
do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypo- 
crites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, 
that they may have glory of men. Verily, I 
say unto you, they have their reward. 

3. But when thou doest alms let not thy left 
hand know what thy right hand doeth. 

4. That thine alms may be in secret; and thy 
Father which seeth in secret himself shall re- 
ward thee openly. 

5. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not 
be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray 
standing in the synagogues, and in the corners 
of the streets, that they may be seen of men. 
Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 

6. But thou when thou prayest, enter into 
thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, 
pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy 
Father, which seeth in secret shall reward thee 
openly. 

7. But when ye pray use not vain repetitions 
as the heathen do; for they think that they shall 
be heard for their much speaking. 



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8. Be not ye therefore like unto them, for 
your Father knoweth what things ye have need 
of before ye ask him,. 

9. After this manner, therefore pray ye. 

Read also Matt. 14: 34. 

Meditation — When I pray as He prayed the 
blessing is plenteous. 

The Daily Prayer 

Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be 
Thy name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be 
done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this 
day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts 
as we forgive our debtors, And lead us not 
into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for 
thine is the kingdom and the power and the 
glory, forever. Amen. 



SEVENTEENTH DAY 

Matthew 7: 1. Judge not that ye be not 
judged. 

2. For with what judgment ye judge, ye 
shall be judged, and with what measure ye mete, 
it shall be measured to you again. 

3. And why beholdest thou the mote that 
is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not 
the beam that is in thine own eye? 

4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let 
me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and be- 
hold a beam is in thine own eye? 

5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam 
out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see 
clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's 
eye. 

6. Give not "that which is holy unto the 
dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, 
lest they trample them under their feet, and 
turn again and rend you. 

7. Ask and it shall be given you, seek and 






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ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto 
you. 

8. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and 
he that seeketh fiddeth, and to him that knock- 
eth, it shall be opened. 

9. Or what man is there of you whom if 
his son ask bread will he give him a stone? 

10. Or if he ask a fish will he give him a 
serpent? 

11. If ye then being evil, know how to give 
good gifts unto your children, how much more 
shall your Father which is in heaven give good 
things to them that ask him? 

12. Therefore all things, whatsoever ye 
would that men should do to you, do ye even 
so to them; for this is the law and the Pro- 
phets. 

Read also Matthew 7: 13-29. 
Meditation — All life's good things await the 
one who believes. 

The Daily Prayer 

Heavenly Father, give us Thy greatest bless- 
ing. Give us salvation of soul, soundness of 
mind, and health of body. Give us Jesus Christ 
who maketh us whole. Thou hast given us 
Him. We now in faith accept Him, receive 
Him as our Saviour, Healer, Friend and Guide, 
and we sincerely praise His name for evermore. 
Amen. 



EIGHTEENTH DAY 

Mark 7: 31. And again departing from the 
coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the Sea 
of Galilee', through the midst of the coasts of 
Decapolis. 

32. And they bring unto him one that was 
deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and 
they beseech him to put his hand upon us. 



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33. And he took him aside from the multi- 
tude and put his fingers into his ears, and he 
spit and touched his tongue. 

34. And looking up to heaven, he sighed, 
and saith unto him Ephphatha, that is, Be 
opened! 

35. And straitway his ears were opened, and 
the string of his tongue was loosed, and he 
spake plain. 

36. And he charged them that they should 
tell no man, but the more he charged them so 
much the more a great deal they published it. 

37. And were beyond measure astonished 
saying, He hath done all things well: He maketh 
both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. 

Read also Mark 8: 22-38. 
Meditation — I must realize that He ever 
doeth all things well. 

The Daily Prayer 

Master, we know that Thou art a teacher 
come from God, for no man can do the things 
which Thou doest except God be with him. 
Thou hast also given us a vision of God our 
common Father, as one who saves and heals 
those who call upon Him in Faith. Lord in- 
crease our faith. Lord teach us to pray in 
truth. Lord grant us thy spirit. Give our 
souls peace, give our minds rest, give our bodies 
ease and power. Our combined faculties and 
restored talents are praising Thy name, advan- 
cing Thy cause, and serving Thine Eternal pur- 
pose, for Jesus' sake. Amen. 



NINETEENTH DAY . 

St. Miatthew 10: 16. Behold I send you forth 
as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye there- 
fore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 

17. But beware of men; for they will deliver 



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you up to the councils, and they will scourge 
you in their synagogues. 

18. And ye shall be brought before gover- 
nors and kings for my sake, for a testimony 
against them and the Gentiles. 

19. But when they deliver up, take no 
thought how or what ye shall speak; for it 
shall be given you in that same hour what ye 
shall speak. 

20. For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit 
of your Father which speaketh in you. 

21. And the brother shall deliver up the 
brother to death, and the father the child; and 
the children shall rise up against their parents, 
and cause them to be put to death. 

22. And ye shall be hated of all men for 
my name's sake, but he that endureth to the 
end shall be saved. 

23. But when they persecute you in this city, 
flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, 
Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, 
till the Son of man be come. 

24. The disciple is not above his master, nor 
the servant above his lord. 

25. It is enough for the disciple that he be 
as his master, and the servant as his lord. If 
they have called the master of the house of 
Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them 
of his household. 

26. Fear them not therefore; for there is 
nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and 
hid, that shall not be known. 

27. What I tell you in darkness, that speak 
ye in light; and what ye hear in the ear, that 
preach ye upon the housetops. 

28. And fear not them which kill the body, 
but are not able to kill the soul; but rather 
fear him which is able to destroy both soul and 
body in hell. 

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ing? and one, of them shall not fall on the 
ground without your Father. 

30. But the very hairs of your head are all 
numbered. 

31. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more 
value than many sparrows. 

32. Whosoever therefore shall confess me 
before men, him will I confess also before my 
Father which is in heaven. 

33. But whosoever shall deny me before 
men, him will I also deny before my Father 
which is in heaven. 

34. Think not that I am come to send peace 
on earth; I came not to send peace, but a 
sword. 

Also read Matt. 8: 10-17. 
Meditation — I am proud today to confess and 
imitate Christ my best friend. 

The Daily Prayer 

Christ of Galilee, who hast borne our sins 
and carried our sicknesses according to the 
Scripture, why should we ourselves then carry 
them? Loving Lord, who hast paid the debt 
for all mankind, why should we pay it over 
again? Nay, Lord let us accept Thy sacrifice 
and appropriate Thy freedom with which Thou 
didst make us free. May we accept Thy blood 
shed for remission of our souls' sin, and thy 
body broken for our bodies' healing. So Jesus 
Christ now maketh us perfectly whole. In 
His blessed Name. Amen. 



TWENTIETH DAY 

St. Matthew 13: 3. And He spake many 
things unto them in parables, saying, Behold a 
sower went forth to sow. 

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the way side, and the fowls came and devoured 
them up. 

5. Some fell upon stony places, where they 
had not much earth; and forthwith they sprung 
up, because they had no deepness of earth: 

6. And when the sun was up, they were 
scorched; and because they had no root, they 
withered away. 

7. And some fell among thorns; and the 
thorns sprung up, and choked them: 

8. But other fell into good ground, and 
brought forth fruit, — some a hundredfold; some 
sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. 

9. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 

10. And the disciples came, and said unto 
Him, Why speakest thou unto them in par- 
ables? 

11. He answered and said unto them, Be- 
cause it is given unto you to know the myster- 
ies of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is 
not given. 

12. For whosoever hath, to him shall be 
given, and he shall have more abundance; but 
whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken 
away even that he hath. 

13. Therefore speak I to them in parables: 
because they seeing see not; and hearing they 
hear not, neither do thy understand. 

14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of 
Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, 
and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall 
see, and shall not perceive: 

15. For this people's heart is waxed gross, 
and their ears are dull of hearing, and their 
eyes they have closed; lest at any time they 
should see with their eyes, and hear with their 
ears, and should understand with their heart, 
and should be converted, and I should heal 
them. 



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16. But blessed are your eyes, for they see; 
and your ears, for they hear. 

17. For verily I say unto you, That many 
prophets and righteous men have desired to see 
those things which ye see, and have not seen 
them; and to hear those things which ye hear, 
and have not heard them. 

Read also Matthew 9: 9-38. 
Meditation — If I will it, my eyes may see 
God, and my ears hear His voice, just now! 

The Daily Prayer 

Forgiver of the soul, and Physician of the 
body, I need Thee every hour, — stay Thou near 
by. Reach out Thy strong and loving hand 
and clasp my weak one, and make me strong. 
Thou art my refuge and strength and I feel 
Thine own vitality coursing through my being. 
My body is quickened and my soul inspired by 
the life of Jesus Christ which dwells in me. 
Every member of my body is invigorated and 
made fully whole, through Thee, Thou Heal- 
ing Christ, who keepest me in the hollow of 
Thy hand. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



TWENTY-FIRST DAY 

St. Mark 9: 1. And He said unto them, 
Verily I sa}^ unto you, That there be some of 
them that stand here, which shall not taste of 
death, till they have seen the kingdom of God 
come with power. 

2. And after six days Jesus taketh with him 
Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them 
up into a high mountain apart by themselves; 
and he was transfigured before them. 

3. And his raiment became shining, exceed- 
ing white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can 
white them. 



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4. And there appeared unto them Elias with 
Moses; and they were talking with Jesus. 

5. And Peter answered and said to Jesus, 
Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us 
make three tabernacles; one for thee and one 
for Moses, and one for Elias. 

6. For he wist not what to say; for they 
were sore afraid. 

7. And there was a cloud that overshadowed 
them: and a voice came out of the cloud, say- 
ing, This is my beloved Son, hear him, 

8. And suddenly, when they had looked 
round about, they saw no man any more, save 
Jesus only with themselves. 

9. And as they came down from the moun- 
tain, he charged them that they should tell no 
man what things they had seen, till the Son 
of man were risen from the dead. 

Read also Matt. 15: 22-28. 
Meditation — My own life is transfigured 
through the Christ inside. 

The Daily Prayer 

Spirit of truth and Father of light and love, 
our hands are palsied until they be strengthened 
by touching Thee. Our souls are lost until 
they be found and redeemed by Thee. But 
thanks be to God which giveth us the victory, 
through our Lord Jesus Christ, both our souls 
and our bodies are restored by Thine infinite 
touch of love, and we spring into newness of 
life more abundant, because Thou dost quicken 
our mortal bodies with Thine own resurrection 
life, just now. Through Jesus' name. Amen. 



TWENTY-SECOND DAY 

St. Luke 15: 11. And He said, A certain man 
had two sons: 

12. And the younger of them said to his 



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father, Father give me the portion of goods 
that falleth to me. And he divided unto them 
his living. 

13. And not many days after, the younger 
son gathered all together, and took his journey 
into a far country; — and there wasted his sub- 
stance with riotous living. 

14. And when he had spent all, there arose 
a mighty famine in that land; and he began to 
be in want. 

15. And he went and joined himself to a 
citizen of that country; and he sent him into 
his fields to feed swine. 

16. And he would fain have filled his belly 
with the husks that the swine did eat; and no 
man gave unto him. 

17. And when he came to himself, he said, 
How many hired servants of my father's have 
bread enough and to spare, and I perish with 
hunger! 

18. I will arise and go to my father, and will 
say unto him, Father, I have sinned against 
heaven, and before thee, 

19. And am no more worthy to be called 
thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants. 

20. And he arose, and came to his father. 
But when he was yet a great way off, his father 
saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and 
fell on his neck, and kissed him. 

21. And the son said unto him, Father, I 
have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, 
and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 

22. But the father said to his servants, 
Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; 
and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his 
feet: 

23. And bring hither the fatted calf, and 
kill it; and let us eat and be merry: 

24. For this my son was dead, and is alive 
again: he was lost and is found. 



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Also read Luke 22: 50. 

Meditation — My lost life is found and my 
dead life resurrected through His Word. 
The Daily Prayer 

Bearer of human infirmity, Carrier of all our 
grief and weakness and sin, every day is a Sab- 
bath when we live in Thee. Thou dost eman- 
cipate, rejuvenate and rejoice our lives at all 
times when we do Thy will. Give us faith to 
follow Thee, and faith to trust in Thee, and 
faith to see in Thee the answer to our every 
need of body and of soul. Quicken our spirits, 
liven our steps, strengthen our hands, renew 
our being, transform our nature with the mind 
of Christ, at this time. We feel Thee now in- 
vigorating us. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



TWENTY-THIRD DAY 

St. John 4: 1. When therefore the Lord 
knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus 
made and baptized more disciples than John. 

2. (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but 
his disciples.) 

3. He left Judea, and departed again into 
Galilee. 

4. And he must needs go through Samaria. 

5. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, 
which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of 
ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 

6. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus there- 
fore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus 
on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 

7. There cometh a woman of Samaria to 
draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to 
drink. 

8. (For his disciples were gone away unto 
the city to buy meat.) 



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9. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto 
him. How is it that thou being a Jew, askest 
drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? 
for the Jews have no dealing with the Samar- 
itans. 

10. Jesus answered and said unto her, if 
thou knowest the gift of God, and who it is that 
saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst 
have asked of Him, and He would have given 
thee living water. 

11. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou 
hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; 
from whence then hast thou that living water? 

12. Art thou greater than our father Jacob, 
which gave us the well, and drank thereof him- 
self, and his children and his cattle? 

13. Jesus answered and said unto her, Who- 
soever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 

14. But whosoever drinketh of the water 
that I shall give him shall never thirst: but the 
water that I shall give him shall be in him a 
well of water springing up into everlasting life. 

15. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me 
this water that I thirst not, neither come hither 
to draw. 

Also read Jno. 9: 1-41. 
Meditation — The healing fountain of life is 
bubbling in my own back yard. 

The Daily Prayer 

Our Father which are in Heaven, we humbly 
beseech Thee just now to speak to our infirmity 
and weakness and make it strength. Touch our 
impaired souls and inspire them, and touch our 
defective organs and restore their normal func- 
tions. O Christ of God, the same yesterday, 
today and forever, bring Thy children close to 
Thee, by healing every sickness and forgiving 
every sin. With full salvation of soul and com- 
plete health of body, we are attaining to the 



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perfect man the measure of the stature of the 
fulness of Christ, and Thine is the glory for- 
ever and ever. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



TWENTY-FOURTH DAY 

Luke 10: 30. And Jesus answering said, 
"A certain man went down from Jerusalem 
to Jericho, and fell among thieves; which 
stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, 
and departed, leaving him half dead. 

31. And by chance there came down a cer- 
tain priest that way, and when he saw him, 
he passed by on the other side. 

32. And likewise a Levite, when he was at 
the place came and looked on him, and passed 
by on the other side. 

33. But a certain Samaritan as he jour- 
neyed, came where he was, and when he 
saw him, he had compassion on him, 

34. And went to him and bound up his 
wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him 
on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, 
and took care of him. 

35. And on the morrow when he departed, 
he took out two pence and gave them to the 
host and said unto him, Take care of him; and 
whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come 
again I will repay thee. 

36. Which now of these three thinkest thou 
was neighbor unto him that fell among thieves? 

37. And he said, He that shewed mercy 
on him. Then said Jesus unto Him, "go thou 
and do likewise." 

Read also Luke 14. 

Meditation — A - Christly deed and kindly 
word today, will bring me in a handsome in- 
ward pay. 



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The Daily Prayer 
Prince of Peace and Saviour of the world, 
we look up into Thy face in confidence and 
trust. Our hope is in Thee. We pray to 
Thee in faith. Thou hast said, "Whatsoever 
ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall re- 
ceive. If ye ask anything in my name, I will 
do it!" And now we ask in Jesus' blessed 
name for health, complete and perfect, of 
mind and soul and body, so we may be like 
Thee. W T e are made in Thine image. We are 
admonished by Jesus to be perfect even as 
our Father in heaven is perfect, and we take 
Thee at Thy word. There hath not failed 
one word of all His good promise. I am 
even now Thine own strong and joyous child. 
In Jesus' name. Amen. 



TWENTY-FIFTH DAY 

Luke 15: 1. There drew near unto him all 
the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 

2. And the pharisees and scribes mur- 
mured saying, This man receiveth sinners 
and eateth with them. 

3. And he spake this parable unto them 
saying 

4. What man of you having an hundred 
sheep, if he lose one of them doth not leave 
the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go 
after that which is lost until he find it? 

5. And when he hath found it, he layeth 
it on his shoulders rejoicing. 

6. And when he cometh home he calleth 
together his friends and neighbors saying 
unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found 
my sheep which was lost. . 

7. I say unto you that likewise joy shall 
be in heaven, over one sinner that repenteth, 



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more than over ninety and nine just persons 
which need no repentance. 

Read also Luke 15: 8-32. 
Meditation — The essence of His spirit is in 
sweet helpfulness to His needy ones. 

The Daily Prayer 

Lamb of Calvary, who didst die that I might 
live, who carried all my grief, and on the cruel 
cross bore my sickness and my sins, Thy love 
is so unspeakable! Thou who didst command 
believers to lay hands in prayer upon the 
sick, and they should recover; who through 
Thine apostles didst command the sick to call 
for prayer in the name of the Lord, and the 
prayer of faith should save the sick, and God 
should raise him up: we believe Thee and we 
obey. Thy word is very sure. O Lord may 
we just now have the anointing of Thy spirit 
for our infirmities. Where we are weak, be 
Thou our strength. Be our companion all the 
way, and then we know that we shall not 
fear though the earth be removed. If God be 
for us, who can be against us? For this is 
the victory that overcometh the world and all 
things in it, — even our faith. The grace ' of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and 
the communion of the Holy Spirit is upon us 
now and forever. Amen. 



TWENTY-SIXTH DAY 

John 3: 1. There was a man of the Phari- 
sees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 

2. The same came' to Jesus by night and 
said unto him, Rabbi we know that thou art 
a teacher come from God, for no man can do 
these miracles that thou doest except God 
be with him. 



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3. Jesus answered and said unto him, 
Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, except a man 
be born again he cannot see the kingdom of 
God. 

4. Nicodemus, saith unto him, How can a 
man be born when he is old? Can he enter 
the second time into his mother's womb, and 
be born? 

5. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say 
unto thee, except a man be born of water and 
of the spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom 
of God. 

6. That which is born of flesh is flesh: and 
that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 

7. M'arvel not that I say unto you, ye must 
be born again. 

8. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and 
thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not 
tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth; 
so is every one that is born of the spirit. 

9. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, 
How can these things be? 

Read also John 3: 10-36. 

Meditation — Even more wonderful than 
physical birth, is the glorious rebirth of the 
soul. 

The Daily Prayer 

Regenerate us, O Christ of God, Give me 
this new birth which cometh down from 
heaven, — not from earth. Renew my motives 
and desires. Create in me a clean heart, O 
God and renew a right spirit, within me. 
Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean, 
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 
Thou dost cleanse and purify and save and 
heal my body and my soul, just now. And 
Thine is the honor and the glory, and thine 
O God, my everlasting gratitude, World with- 
out end. Amen. 



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TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY 

Jno. 19: 1. Then Pilate therefore took 
Jesus and scourged him. 

2. And the soldiers platted a crown of 
thorns and put it on his head, and they put on 
him a purple robe. 

3. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and 
they smote him with their hands. 

4. Pilate therefore went forth again, and 
saith unto them, Behold I bring him forth to 
you, that ye may know that I find no fault 
in him. 

5. Then came Jesus forth wearing the 
crown of thorns, and the purple . robe, and 
Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! 

6. When the chief priests therefore, and 
officers saw him they cried out saying. Crucify 
him, Crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, 
Take ye him and crucify him; for I find no 
fault in him. 

7. The Jews answered him, But we have a 
law, and by our law he ought to die, because 
he made himself the Son of God. 

8. When Pilate therefore heard that say- 
ing, he was the more afraid. 

9. And went again into the judgment hall 
and saith unto Jesus, whence art thou? But 
Jesus gave him no answer. 

Read also Jno. 19: 10-42. Also Jno. 20. 
Meditation — If I wear the crown of thorns 
like a real king, I inherit the crown of life. 

The Daily Prayer 

Son of God, our Saviour Crucified, Thou 
didst it all for me! Thou didst bear our sins 
and carry our sicknesses that we should not 
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soul and forget not all His benefits, who for- 
giveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy 
diseases. I do accept those priceless benefits — 
Thy blood shed for remission of my soul's 
sins, Thy body broken for healing of my broken 
body. It was all provided by Thee on Calvary, 
I therefore now go scot free, of sin and sick- 
ness, remorse and sorrow. In Jesus' name. 
Amen. 



TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY 

Acts 9: 1. And Saul (afterward called Paul) 
yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter 
against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the 
high priest. 

2. And desired of him letters to Damascus, 
to the synagogues, that if he found any of 
this Way, whether they were men or women, 
he might bring them bound into Jerusalem. 

3. And as he journeyed he came near 
Damascus: and suddenly there shined round 
about him a light from heaven. 

4. And he fell to the earth and heard a voice 
saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest 
thou me? 

5. And he said, who art thou. Lord? And 
the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecu- 
test: it is hard for thee to kick against the 
pricks. 

6. And he trembling and astonished said, 
Lord what wilt thou have me to do? And the 
Lord said unto him, Arise and go into the 
city, and it shall be told thee what thou must 
do. 

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stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing 
no man. 

Read also Acts 10. 

Meditation — Obedience to the vision and the 
heavenly voice, hews out the path to victory. 

The Daily Prayer 

Jesus of Nazareth, we too, like Thy great 
Apostle inquire, Lord what wouldst Thou have 
me do? We delight to do Thy will O God. 
Fit us for Thy use, and use us in Thine earthly 
vineyard. Help us to bring souls to the cross. 
Help us to say with Paul, woe is me, if I 
preach not the gospel — the gospel of the King- 
dom, the healing of the sick. Great Healer, 
touch this frame today, enliven every part of 
it, rouse every nerve and muscle, bone and 
member, — to do its proper function, as well 
as the soul to praise Thy name. My life is 
now a strong and living witness for Thee. 
In Jesus' name. Amen. 



TWENTY-NINTH DAY 

James 5: 13. Is any among you afflicted? 
Let him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing 
Psalms. 

14. Is any sick among you? Let him call 
for the elders of the church; and let them 
pray over him, anointing him with oil in the 
name of the Lord. 

15. And the prayer of faith shall save the 
sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if 
he have committed sins they shall be forgiven 
him. 



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16. Confess your faults one to another, and 
pray one for another that ye may be healed. 
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous 
man availeth much. 

Also read Jno. 4: 46. 

Meditation — My faith shall overcome all 
things, for God Himself has promised. 

The Daily Prayer 

Giver of Life, and health and redemption, 
anoint us we beseech Thee, with Thy Holy 
Spirit and with power. Invigorate and 
quicken Thy waiting servant with that secret 
inner strength which cometh only from above. 
Restored and redeemed, we promise and avow 
the full surrender of our lives and souls and 
bodies unto Thee in service, as humble vessels 
in Thy Holy work. Cause us now to thank 
and praise Thy name, for the power and 
strength already felt, and for the Healing 
work which Thou hast done in us, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen and Amen. 



THIRTIETH DAY 

Revelation 1: 1. The Revelation of Jesus 
Christ which God gave unto Him to shew unto 
his servants, which must shortly come to pass; 
and he sent and signified it by his angel unto 
his servant John. 

2. Who bore record of the Word of God, 
and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of 
all things that he saw. 

3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that 
hear the words of this prophecy, and keep 
those things which are written herein; for the 
time is at hand. 



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4. John, to the seven churches which are 
in Asia. Grace be unto you, and peace from 
Him which is, and which was and which is 
to come; and from the seven spirits which are 
before His throne. 

5. And from Jesus Christ who is the faith- 
ful witness and the first begotten of the dead, 
and the prince of the Kings of the earth. 
Unto Him that loved us and washed us from 
our sins in His own blood. 

6. And hath made us kings and priests 
unto God, and his Father; to him be glory and 
dominion forever, and ever. Amen. 

Read also Rev. 6. 

Meditation — I am a revelation, through Him, 
who washes a scarlet life white as snow. 

The Daily Prayer 

Thanks be to Thee O God, through our 
Lord Jesus Christ, who hast made known unto 
us Thy Revelation and Thy holy will. The 
chief purpose of humanity is to glorify and 
enjoy the Lord, and Thy chief desire is for 
Thy child to live a fully saved and healed life. 
O God, we take Thee at Thy word surrendering 
our lives to Thee, and claiming now the prom- 
ise of salvation, strength and joy. We possess 
these priceless things, and we are strong and 
pure in Thee. Use us for Thy purpose, and 
lead us in the way everlasting; and men and 
angels shall adore Thee evermore. In Jesus' 
name. Amen. 



THIRTY-FIRST DAY , 

Revelation 21: 1. And I saw a new heaven 
and a new earth, for the first heaven and the 



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first earth were passed away, and there was 
no more sea. 

2. And I John, saw the holy city, New 
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of 
heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her 
husband. 

3. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, 
saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with 
men, and He will dwell with them, and they 
shall be His people, and God Himself shall 
be with them, and be their God. 

4. And God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes, and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there 
be any more pain: for the former things are 
passed away. 

5. And He that sat upon the throne said, 
Behold I make all things new, And He said 
unto me Write, for these things are true and 
faithful. 

6. And He said unto me, It is done. I am 
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. 
I will give unto him that is athirst of the foun- 
tain of the water of life freely. 

7. He that overcometh shall inherit all 
things; and I will be his God, and he shall be 
my son. 

Read also Rev. 21: 8-27. Also Rev. 22. 

Meditation — Through intimate acquaintance 
the Lord has made me a new creature. 

The Daily Prayer 

O Christ Jesus, Eternal fountain of life, 
we have thirsted and famished in the worldly 
life, but now we drink of Thee and are com- 
pletely satisfied. Thou art the Bread of 
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no more. Thou art the Water of Life, ot 
which if a man drink he shall thirst no more. 
Thou art the All in All for my spirit, soul, 
and body, and Thou dost make me whole; 
just now, O Christ Thou dost make me whole. 
I am now living the resurrection life. Be- 
cause Thou livest I also live. In Jesus' name. 
Amen. 



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1st Day 

Matt. 4: 17. From that time Jesus began to 
preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom 
of heaven is at hand. 

18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Gali- 
lee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and 
Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: 
for they were fishers. 

19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and 
I will make you fishers of men. 

20 And they straightway left their nets, and 
followed him. 

21 And going on from thence, he saw other 
two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and 
John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their 
father, mending their nets; and he called 
them. 

22 And they immediately left the ship and 
their father, and followed him. 

23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teach- 
ing in their synagogues, and preaching the 
gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner 
of sickness and all manner of disease among the 
people. 

24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: 
and they brought unto him all sick people 
that were taken with divers diseases and tor- 
ments, and those which were possessed with 
devils, and those which were lunatic, and those 
that had the palsy; and he healed them. 



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25 And there followed him great multitudes 
of peope from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and 
from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from 
beyond Jordan. 

Meditation — By following Thee O Christ, I 
too am fully healed. 

Prayer for the First Day 

God of the lonely, and of the suffering, 
Friend of the sick, and the afflicted and the 
tormented, if Thou didst heal them then, why 
shouldst Thou not also heal them now, since 
Thou art the same yesterday, today and for- 
ever? We praise Thee, O Lord, that Thou 
dost heal us now. Thou dost heal the tor- 
mented souls of men, distressed by uncertainty 
and worry and sin. Forgive and restore, O 
Christ of God, just now. Heal, also the 
broken and unnatural condition of body. O 
God of love, cast out the devils of suspicion 
and hate, and jealousy and greed and pain, 
and brooding and fear. Take Thou full pos- 
session now, and in Thy keeping we find our- 
selves transformed and changed and joyous 
and strong and free. For this new outlook 
and this bright vision, we thank Thee with 
our whole hearts, and will serve Thee all our 
days, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 



2nd Day 



Matt. 8: 1. When he was come down from 
the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 

2 And, behold, there came a leper and wor- 
shipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou 
canst make me clean. 

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him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And im- 
mediately his leprosy was cleansed. 

4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell 
no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the 
priest, and offer the gift that Moses com- 
manded, for a testimony unto them. 

5 And when Jesus was entered into Caper- 
naum, there came unto him a centurion, be- 
seeching him, 

6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home 
sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 

7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come 
and heal him,. 

8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, 
I am not worthy that thou shouldest come 
under my roof: but speak the word only, and 
my servant shall be healed. 

9 For I am a man under authority, having 
soldiers under me; and I say to this man, Go, 
and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he 
cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he 
doeth it. 

10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and 
said to them that followed, Verily I say unto 
you, I have not found so great faith, no, not 
in Israel. 

11 And I say unto you, That many shall 
come from the east and west, and shall sit 
down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, 
in the kingdom of heaven: 

12 But the children of the kingdom shall be 
cast out into outer darkness, there shall be 
weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go 
thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it 
done unto thee. And his servant was healed 
in the selfsame hour. 

Meditation — Trusting in the Saviour, He 
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Prayer for the Second Day 

As we have believed, O Christ, so has it 
been done unto us! When we have believed 
but little in Thy goodness and Thy love, little 
has been done. When we have believed much, 
much has been done, and much will ever be 
done. Help Thou our unbelief, O God! 
Give us perfect faith in Thee, for Thou doest 
all things well. Bless Thy kingdom and Thy 
Church. May Thy followers serve Thee 
better and trust Thee more. Thus may that 
calm untroubled mind possess them, that quiet 
faith, which overcometh the world! 

The things of time and sense cannot oppress 
us, the wind of circumstance, the turn of for- 
tune's wheel, if we believe; for we are children 
of Eternity, with feet upon the solid rock and 
eyes in the heaven of infinite love. Let us 
live forever in this realm. For Jesus' sake. 
Amen. 

3rd Day 

Matt. 8: 14. And when Jesus was come into 
Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, 
and sick of a fever. 

15 And he touched her hand, and the fever 
left her: and she arose, and ministered unto 
them. 

16 When the even was come, they brought 
unto him many that were possessed with devils: 
and he cast out the spirits with his word, and 
healed all that were sick: 

17 That it might be fulfilled which was 
spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Him- 
self took our infirmities, and bare our sick- 
nesses. 

18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes 
about him, he gave commandment to depart 
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19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto 
him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever 
thou goest. 

20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes 
have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; 
but the Son of man hath not where to lay his 
head. 

21 And another of his disciples said unto 
him,, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my 
father. 

22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and 
let the dead bury their dead. 

23 And when he was entered into a ship, his 
disciples followed him. 

Meditation — Jesus took a pillow of stone, that 
I might have a softer bed. 

Prayer for the Third Day 

Master, we would follow Thee, whithersoever 
Thou goest. But, O Christ, we know that 
Thou dost travel where the road is long, and 
the pathway rough. We know that the way 
of Jesus leads to the cross, and to sacrifice. 
Bnt it is the way of life; life and love and joy. 
And what mother-heart does not expectantly 
travel the sacrificial road, down by death's 
cold stream, in the darkening valley — for love 
and joy? The lesson of sacrifice is experience, 
we know. And when we follow Thee we know 
it will be hard and dangerous and sometimes 
dark — but Oh, the joy that is beyond! The 
healing which Thou givest! The redemption 
all for us! Make us strong, O Christ of God 
that we may follow Thee today, renouncing 
sin and fear and hate and worry, and just doing 
gladly the Divinely given task, for Jesus' 
sake. Amen. 



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4th Day 

Matt. 9: 1. And he entered into a ship, and 
passed over, and came into his own city. 

2 And, behold, they brought to him a man 
sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus 
seeing their faith said unto the sick of the 
palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be for- 
given thee. 

3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said 
within themselves, This man blasphemeth. 

4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, 
Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? 

5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be 
forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk.' 

6 But that ye may know that the Son of 
man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then 
saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take 
up thy bed, and go unto thine house. 

7 And he arose, and departed to his house. 

8 But when the multitudes saw it, they mar- 
velled, and glorified God, which had given 
such power unto men. 

Meditation — Since I love Thee, thou dost 
this day give all power to me also. 

Prayer for the Fourth Day 

The multitudes marvel even now, Oh Christ, 
when they see what mighty power Thou hast 
given to those who love Thee. Nothing is im- 
possible. I can do all things through Christ 
which strengthened me. If ye shall ask any- 
thing in My name, says Jesus, I will do it, 
and the doers of Thy, full gospel, work thy 
m,iracles of love, and multitudes glorify God. 
Forgiving of sin and healing of sickness, tell 
the story of Jesus' life and death. The one is 
the same as the other with Him. "This is my 
blood shed for remission of sins of men's 
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broken for healing of men's wrecked and 
broken bodies." Help Thy church, O Christ 
of God, to get the double vision and to preach 
the complete gospel. Help us to consider Time 
as being also a part of Eternity. Grant Thy 
pardon and Thy healing in Jesus' blessed 
name. Amen. 

5th Day 

Matt. 9: 18. While he spake these things 
unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, 
and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is 
even now dead: but come and lay thy hand 
upon her, and she shall live. 

19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and 
so did his disciples. 

20 And, behold, a woman, which was dis- 
eased with an issue of blood twelve years, came 
behind him, and touched the hem of his gar- 
ment: 

21 For she said within herself, if I may but 
touch his garment, I shall be whole. 

22 But Jesus turned him about, and when 
he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good 
comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And 
the woman was made whole from that hour. 

23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's 
house, and saw the minstrels and the people 
making a noise, 

24 He said unto them, Give place: for the 
maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they 
laughed him to scorn. 

25 But when the people were put forth, he 
went in, and took her by the hand, and the 
maid arose. 

26 And the fame hereof went abroad into 
all that land. 

27 And when Jesus departed thence, two 
blind men followed him, crying, and saying, 
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28 And when he was come into the house, 
the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith 
unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do 
this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. 

29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, Ac- 
cording to your faith be it unto you. 

30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus 
straitly charged them,, saying, See that no man 
know it. 

31 But they, when they were departed, 
spread abroad his fame in all that country. 

32 As they went out, behold, they brought 
to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. 

33 And when the devil was cast out, the 
dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, 
saying, It was never so seen in Israel. 

Meditation — The greatest blessings can only 
be seen through eyes that are open to Christ. 

Prayer for the Fifth Day 

Thou Son of David, we today beseech Thee 
to have mercy on us also! Blind of sight and 
dull of hearing, we have groped our way along 
through the world, thinking that appearance 
meant reality, and taking the sound of silver 
and gold upon the counter, as the sweetest 
music of life. We have not learned the higher 
symphonies! But now O God, we are hearing 
and we are seeing the better, brighter life which 
is hid with Christ in God. The saved and 
healed existence is so much more satisfying! 
We now have a Friend that sticketh closer 
than a Brother. May we O God in turn, go 
forth and give this healing gospel to the mul- 
titudes, and turn their bewildered eyes away 
from earthlv dross and clay, and fix them on 
Thyself. There they may find their glorious 
destiny. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 



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6th Day 

Matt. 9: 35. And Jesus went about all the 
cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, 
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and 
healing every sickness and every disease among 
the people. 

36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was 
moved with compassion on them, because they 
fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep 
having no shepherd. 

37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The har- 
vest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are 
few; 

38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the har- 
vest, that he will send forth labourers into 
his harvest. 

CHAPTER 10 

1 And when he had called unto him his 
twelve disciples, he gave them power against 
unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal 
all manner of sickness and all manner of dis- 
ease. 

2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are 
these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, 
and Andrew his brother; James the son of 
Zebedee, and John his brother; 

3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and 
Matthew the publican; James the son of Al- 
pheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was 
Thaddeus; 

4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, 
who also betrayed him. 

5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and com- 
manded them, saying, Go not into the way of 
the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samari- 
tans enter ye not: 

6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house 
of Israel. 






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7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom 
of heaven is at hand. 

8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise 
the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have re- 
ceived, freely give. 

Meditation — Equip even me, O Lord, to be 
a spiritual harvester. 

Prayer for the Sixth Day 
We gladly go, our Lord and Master, and 
do as Thou hast said, Preach the kingdom, heal 
the sick. Freely we have received indeed. 
From Thee O Lord, we have gotten infinite 
treasures. Thou dost give us life and health 
and peace and happiness. And may we freely 
give to others of all the joy and hope and in- 
spiration and healing, which Thou hast brought 
to us. It is only as we accept from Thee, and 
only as we give out again in Thy sweet name, 
that hope becomes enlarged or life worth while. 
And we shall be like Christ and have His joy 
and exercise His spirit and usefulness, if we 
go forth obedient, and preach the kingdom and 
heal the sick in His name. Healing cometh 
from faith in Thee, O God. "As thou hast 
believed, so be it done unto thee." Accept our 
gratitude and trust for Jesus' sake. Amen. 

7th Day 

Matt. 12: 10. And, behold, there was a man 
which had his hand withered. And they asked 
him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath 
days? that they might accuse him. 

11 And he said unto them, What man shall 
there be among you, that shall have one sheep, 
and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will 
he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? 

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sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on 

the sabbath days. 

13 Then saith he to the man. Stretch forth 
thine hand. And he stretc . it ::r:h; and it 
was restored whole. lik . s the c :her. 

14 Then the Pharisees ::d held a 
council against him. how they might destroy 
him. 

_ : But i Jesus : he withdrew him- 

spreat multitudes followed 
uod he healed them all; 

16 And charged them that they should not 
make him know 

17 That it might be Fulfilled which was 
spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 

18 ] servant whom I have chosen: 
my beloved, in y my soul is well pleas 

I will put S rit upon him, and he shall 

shew judgment Eo the Gentiles 

19 He shall not strive, nor cry: neither shall 
any ma - i the streets. 

20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and 
smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send 
forth judgment unto vict ry 

1\ And in his name shall the Gentiles trust 

22 Then was brought unto him one possessed 
with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed 
him. inasmuch that the blind and dumb both 
spake and saw. 

23 And all the people were amazed, and said. 
Is not this the Son of Davi 

Meditation — Choosing me to be Thy servant, 
help me to be faithful. 

Prayer for the Seventh Day 

Thy spirit O Lord is upon Thy trusting child: 
and never does that spirit depart from us except 
we send it away, — except the lusts of the flesh, 
or deceitfulness of riches, or the snares of this 
world, spring up and choke the seed of the 



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Word of God in our souls. Take Thou pos- 
session of our lives. Be Thou the sole pro- 
prietor. Cast out the spirit of blindness, and 
of selfishness and narrow prejudice. May we 
see clearly that Thy other sheep which are not of 
this fold, are loved of Thee, the same as we are. 
May we love our neighbor as ourself. May we 
desire the richest Messing' on Tew or Gentile, 
rich and poor, relative or stranger, for all are 
Thine in Christ. Forgive us all our sins and 
weaknesses, heal all our infirmities and bruises, 
restore our bodies and our souls: and Thine be 
the honor and the glory, and the majesty, world 
without end. Amen. 

8th Day 

Matt 14: 23. And when he had sent the mul- 
titudes away, he went up into a mountain apart 
to pray: and when the evening was come, he 
was there alone. 

24 But the ship was now in the midst of the 
sea. tossed with waves: for the wind was con- 
trary. 

25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus 
went unto them, walking on the sea. 

26 And when the disciples saw him walking 
on the sea. they were troubled, saying. It is a 
spirit: and they cried out for fear. 

27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, 
saying. Be of good cheer : it is I : be not afraid. 

28 And Peter answered him and said. Lord, 
if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the 
water. 

29 And he said. Come. And when Peter was 
come down out of the ship, he walked on the 
water, to go to Jesus. 

30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he 
was afraid: and beginning to sink, he cried, say- 
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31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his 
hand and caught him, and said unto him, O 
thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? 

32 And when they were come into the ship, 
the wind ceased. 

33 Then they that were in the ship came and 
worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art 
the Son of God. 

34 And when they were gone over, they came 
into the land of Gennesaret. 

35 And when the men of that place had 
knowledge of him, they sent out into all that 
country round about, and brought unto him all 
that were diseased; 

36 And besought him that they might only 
touch the hem of his garment: and as many as 
touched were made perfectly whole. 

Meditation — Banishing doubt, and laying 
hold upon faith, I am approaching Thy per- 
fection. p ray e r f or the Eighth Day 

O Thou Son of God, we are feeling and grop- 
ing for Thee. We are reaching for the hem of 
Thy garment, that we may touch it, for then 
we know that our faith will make us whole. 
For life is built of faith — bolstered up with 
hope, and love, and we intend to stay close 
enough to Thee so that we can always reach 
out and touch Thee, and know that Thou art 
with us. Sometimes we forget, and when we 
forget we despair, as a child without its mother. 
But when we remember that Thou art ever with 
us, then nothing can frighten us, and no feor 
can make us afraid, and we are happy and Holy 
and well and sound and strong. O Healer of 
Humanity, keep us ever by Thy side. Let us 
not get out of reach of the hem of Thy gar- 
ment, and then it is well with our soul and our 
entire Being. We ask it with the pardon of 
our sins for Jesus' sake. Amen. 



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9th Day 

Matt. 15: 21. Then Jesus went thence, and 
departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 

22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came 
out of the same coasts, and cried, unto him, 
saying. Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son 
of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with 
a devil. 

23 But he answered her not a word. And 
his disciples came and besought him, saying, 
Send her away; for she crieth after us. 

24 But he answered and said, I am not sent 
but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

25 Then came she and worshipped him, say- 
ing, Lord help me. 

26 But he answered and said, It is not meet 
to take the children's bread, and to cast it to 
dogs. 

27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs 
eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' 
table. 

28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O 
woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even 
as thou wilt. And her daughter was made 
whole from that very hour. 

29 And Jesus departed from thence, and 
came nigh unto the sea of Galilee: and went up 
into a mountain, and sat down there. 

30 And great multitudes came unto him, hav- 
ing with them those that were lame, blind, 
dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them 
down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: 

31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, 
when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed 
to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to 
see: and they glorified the God of Israel. 

Meditation — I glorify God in my soul and 
in my body, which are His. 



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Prayer for the Ninth Day 

God of pity and compassion, we would glorify 
Thee for Thy mercy. We thank Thee that 
when the multitudes come unto thee, with those 
that are lame and blind and dumb and 
maimed, that thou dost heal them. When 
we look upon the surging crowds of impo- 
tent and suffering folk, having all manner 
of affliction and trouble, our hearts are stirred 
and our souls are touched, with the feelings 
of their infirmities. The stirring of the Christ 
in us moves us to desire to help them. With 
the power of Thy spirit throbbing in our 
breast, may we be enabled and constrained to 
sympathize and help. We know that prayer 
and faith can accomplish wonders and work 
miracles, for Thy Book has told us. We have 
seen it also with our eyes. O Lord, come 
now with mighty power, responding to our 
faith and work Thy holy will. We are in 
Thy hands, to make us as Thou wouldst have 
us be. For Jesus' sake. Amen. 

10th Day 

M;ark 1: 21. And they went into Capernaum: 
and straightway on the sabbath day he entered 
into the synagogue, and taught. 

22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: 
for he taught them as one that had authority, 
and not as the scribes. 

23 And there was in their synagogue a man 
with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 

24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do 
with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou 
come to destroy us? I know thee who thou 
art. the Holy One of God. 

25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy 
peace, and come out of him. 

26 And when the unclean spirit had torn 



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him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out 
of him. 

27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that 
they questioned among themselves, saying, 
What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? 
for with authority commandeth he even the 
unclean spirits, and they do obey him. 

28 And immediately his fame spread abroad 
throughout all the region round about Galilee. 

29 And forthwith, when they were come out 
of the synagogue, they entered into the house 
of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 

30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a 
fever; and anon they tell him of her. 

31 And he came and took her by the hand, 
and lifted her up; and immediately the fever 
left her, and she ministered unto them. 

32 And at even, when the sun did set, they 
brought unto hipn all that were diseased, and 
them that were possessed with devils. 

33 And all the city was gathered together 
at the door. 

34 And he healed many that were sick of 
divers diseases, and cast out many devils. 

Meditation — Thou dost banish my infirmity, 
with Thine own Infirmity. 

Prayer for the Tenth Day 

Friend of Sinners, Helper of the weak, Con- 
soler of the suffering, Healer of the sick; be 
Thou in this place just now. We have Thy 
precious promise that When Thou callest I 
will answer, and we believe Thy word. Come, 
hear and bless Thy child, take away all ill- 
ness and disease, rebuke all evil spirits of in- 
firmity, pardon all iniquity, and restore Thy 
child with Thy wondrous touch. Bestow full 
health and glad salvation for Thy great name's 
sake. O Lord of life and love as we wait upon 
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Being, with the word of life, and touch every 
portion with Thy healing hand. May the power 
which Thou gavest to the first disciples come 
to us Thy last disciples, as Thou hast promised 
it, and may the prayer of trust and faith pro- 
cure Thy promised blessing. Through the 
merits of Thy dear Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. 

11th Day 

Mark 5: 22. And, behold, there cometh one 
of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by 
name; and when he saw him, he fell at his 
feet, 

23 And besought him greatly, saying, My 
little daughter lieth at the point of death: I 
pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that 
she may be healed; and she shall live. 

24 And Jesus went with him; and much peo- 
ple followed him, and thronged him. 

25 And a certain woman, which had an is- 
sue of. blood twelve years. 

26 And had suffered many things of many 
physicians, and had spent all that she had, and 
was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. 

27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in 
the press behind, and touched his garment. 

28 For she said, if I may touch but his 
clothes, I shall be whole. 

29 And straightway the fountain of her blood 
was dried up; and she felt in her body that she 
was healed of that plague. 

30 And Jesus, irornediately knowing in him- 
self that virtue had gone out of him, turned 
him about in the press, and said, Who touched 
my clothes? 

31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou 
seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest 
thou, Who touched me? 

32 And he looked round about to see her 
that had done this thing. 



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33 But the woman fearing and trembling, 
knowing what was done in her, came and fell 
down before him, and told him all the truth. 

34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith 
hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be 
whole of thy plague. 

35 While he yet spake, there came from the 
ruler of the synagogue's house certain which 
said, Thy daughter is dead; why troublest thou 
the Master any further? 

36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was 
spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the syna- 
gogue, Be not afraid, only believe. 

37 And he suffered no man to follow him, 
save Peter, and James, and John the brother 
of James. 

38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of 
the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them 
that wept and wailed greatly. 

39 And when he was come in, he saith unto 
them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the 
damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. 

40 And they laughed him to scorn. But 
when he had put them all out, he taketh the 
father and the mother of the damsel, and them 
that were with him, and entereth in where the 
damsel was lying. 

41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and 
said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being 
interpreted, Damsel, (I say unto thee,) arise. 

42 And straightway the damsel arose, and 
walked: for she was of the age of twelve years 
And they were astonished with a great aston- 
ishment. 

43 And he charged them straitly that no man 
should know it; and commanded that some- 
thing should be given her to eat. 

Meditation — He that hath a whole faith shall 
be made whole through faith. 



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Prayer for the Eleventh Day 

God be merciful unto us and bless us, and 
show us the light of Thy countenance. Bless 
the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His 
benefits — who forgiveth all thine iniquity, who 
healeth all thy diseases. We believe and know 
this to be true, Our Father. Who have I on 
earth beside Thee and who in heaven but Thee? 
Thou art above and around us continually; and 
underneath are the Everlasting Arms. In the 
night time Thou art our song, and Thou art our 
companion in the daylight hours. We are 
never out of Thy presence. Why should we 
fear? Why should we fret ourselves and con- 
tinually worry when God is our refuge and 
our strength, a very present help in trouble? 
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose 
mind is stayed on Thee — because he trusteth in 
Thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the 
Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Give us 
that strength this day, O God; for body, mind 
and spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ. 
Amen. 



12th Day 



Mark 8: 22. And he cometh to Bethsaida; 
and they bring a blind man unto him, and be- 
sought him to touch him. 

23 And he took the blind man by the hand 
and led him out of the town; and when he had 
spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, 
he asked him if he saw aught. 

24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as 
trees, walking. 

25 After that he put his hands again upon his 
eyes, and made him look up; and he was re- 
stored, and saw every man clearly. 

26 And he sent him away to his house, say- 



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ing, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any 
in the town. 

27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into 
the towns of Cesarea Philippi: and by the way 
he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom 
do men say that I am? 

28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but 
some say, Elias; and others, One of the pro- 
phets. 

29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye 
that I am? And Peter answereth and saith 
unto him, Thou art the Christ. 

30 And he charged them that they should tell 
no man of him. 

31 And he began to teach them, that the Son 
of man must suffer many things, and be rejected 
of the elders, and of the chief priests, and 
scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise 
again. 

Meditation — Dead human hopes will rise 
again — even in these days, through Christ. 
Prayer for the Twelfth Day 

Spirit of Eternal Truth, though rejected and 
denied and oftentimes cast out and repudiated, 
Thou wilt rise again! Truth crushed to earth 
shall ever rise again. There is no death. I am 
the resurrection and the Life! He that believeth 
on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, 
and he that liveth and believeth on me, never 
shall die. O Life and Resurrection brought to 
light, dwell Thou in me this day. Live thou in 
this soul — and then — no darkness, fear, bond- 
age, death, disease or disintegration can abide. 
Perfect love casteth out fear; where the spirit 
of God abides there is liberty. I am the light 
of the world. The tabernacle of God is with 
men, and He shall dwell with them, and shall 
wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there 
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crying, neither shall there be any more pain. 
He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and 
I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 
Adopt us O God; and Father us, and Mother 
us, for Jesus' sake. Amen. 



13th Day 

Mark 9: 14. And when he came to his dis- 
ciples, he saw a great multitude about them, 
and the scribes questioning with them. 

15 And straightway all the people, when they 
beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running 
to him saluted him. 

16 And he asked the scribes, What question 
we with them? 

17 And one of the multitude answered and 
said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, 
which hath a dumb spirit; 

18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he tear- 
eth him; and he foameth, and gnasheth with 
his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy 
disciples that they should cast him out; and 
they could not. 

19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless 
generation, how long shall I be with you? how 
long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. 

20 And they brought him unto him: and when 
he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and 
he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. 

21 And he asked his father, How long is it 
ago since this came unto him? And he said, 
Of a child. 

22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, 
and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou 
canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and 
help us. 

23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, 
all things are possible to him that believeth. 



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24 And straightway the father of the child 
cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; 
help thou mine unbelief. 

25 When Jesus saw that the people came run- 
ning together, he rebuked the foul spirit, say- 
ing unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I 
charge thee, come out of him, and enter no 
more into him. 

26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, 
and came out of him: and he was as one dead; 
insomuch that many said, He is dead. 

27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted 
him up; and he arose. 

28 And when he was come into the house, his 
disciples asked him privately, Why could not 
we cast him out? 

29 And he said unto them, This kind can 
come forth by nothing but by prayer and fast- 
ing. 

Meditation — May I pray, and fast, and ever 
commune with Thy holy spirit and thus be free 
from all evil spirit and inclination. 

Prayer for the Thirteenth Day 

O Thou great and only Healer, Thou Re- 
deemer of the body and the mind; Thou Saviour 
of the soul, — grant, we beseech Thee that we 
may come into that saving relationship with 
Thine own person — that sweet and blessed and 
permanent communion with Thy spirit and Thy- 
self — which vouchsafes unto us a character 
formed in the beauty of holiness, and a life 
which is hid with Christ in God. Then shall we 
be pure and upright, and we shall be innocent 
from the great transgression. Then shall we 
be empowered through Thy holy faith to heal 
and be healed; then shall we see miracles in 
very truth and mighty works wrought by Thy 
spirit in men and women in the world. And we 



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shall also have the joy of beholding the Father 
worshipped in spirit and in truth, and Jesus 
Christ adored sincerely, and the Holy Spirit 
magnified. Then shall the day of the Lord be 
ushered in, and Thy kingdom come and Thy 
will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 
Through Jesus' name. Amen. 

14th Day 

Mark 10: 42. But Jesus called them to him, 
and saith unto them, Ye know that they which 
are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exer- 
cise lordship over them; and their great ones 
exercise authority upon them. 

43 But so shall it not be among you: but 
whosoever will be great among you, shall be 
your minister: 

44 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, 
shall be servant of all. 

45 For even the Son of man came not to be 
ministered unto, but to minister, and to give 
his life a ransom for many. 

46 And they came to Jericho: and as he 
went out of Jericho with his disciples and a 
great number of people, blind Bartimeus, the 
son of Timeus, sat by the highway side beg- 
ging. 

47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of 
Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, 
thou Son of David, have mercy on me. 

48 And many charged him that he should 
hold his peace; but he cried the more a great 
deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. 

49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him 
to be called. And they call the blind man, say- 
ing unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he call- 
eth thee. 

50 And he, casting away his garments, rose, 
and came to Jesus. 



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51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, 
What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? 
The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I 
might receive my sight. 

52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; 
thy faith hath made thee whole. And immedi- 
ately he received his sight, and followed Jesus 
in the way. 

Meditation — I shall be made perfectly whole 
through faith in a perfect Lord. 

Prayer for the Fourteenth Day 

Blind and slow of heart, — O God we beseech 
Thee that we might receive our sight! We are 
eagerly looking for the light, and like Barti- 
maeus of old at the Jericho gate, we know that 
Thou art able and willing to grant it. We seek 
the truth, because only the truth can make us 
free. Thou hast promised that he that seeketh 
findeth, and to him that asketh it shall be given. 
We ask primarily for healing of the soul. We 
know that when our souls are out of tune the 
whole life is askew. And when our souls are 
in tune with God the Infinite, the blessed har- 
monies must fill our lives. Give us the faith to 
live and to pray aright. Give us the love to 
think and to serve aright, and give us the devo- 
tion and obedience to follow Thee. In Jesus' 
name. Amen. 

15th Day 

Mark 11: 22. And Jesus answering saith 
unto them, Have faith in God. 

23 For verily I say unto you, That whoso- 
ever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou re- 
moved, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall 
not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that 
those things which he saith shall come to pass; 
he shall have whatsoever he saith. 



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24 Therefore I say unto you, What things so- 
ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye 
receive them, and ye shall have them. 

25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if 
ye have aught against any; that your Father 
also which is in heaven may forgive you your 
trespasses. 

26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your 
Father which is in heaven forgive your tres- 
passes. 

27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as 
he was walking in the temple, there come -to 
him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the 
elders. 

28 And say unto him, By what authority 
doest thou these things? and who gave thee this 
authority to do these things? 

29 And Jesus answered and said unto them, 
I will also ask of you one question, and answer 
me, and I will tell you by what authority I do 
these things. 

30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, 
or of men? answer me. 

31 And they reasoned with themselves, say- 
ing, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, 
Why then did ye not believe him? 

32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared 
the people: for all men counted John, that he 
was a prophet indeed. 

33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, 
We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith 
unto them, Neither do I tell you by what 
authority I do these things. 

Meditation — Divine assurance and authority 
do not depend upon and are not accountable to 
human whim. 



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Prayer for the Fifteenth Day- 
Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, ever- 
lasting Father, Prince of Peace; as Thou didst 
bring that secret of peace and healing to the 
world, bring it now, Oh, we beseech Thee to 
this waiting soul. Touch this broken life and 
mercifully mend it. Bind up the gaping 
wounds, and soothe the bruised being. Pardon 
all the sin, forgive all the iniquity, and heal 
all the disease, according to Thy covenant. 
Accept the adoration and the praise from this 
glowing heart which is crying out. Bless the 
Lord O my soul, and all that is within me, bless 
His holy name. Bless the Lord for the present 
strength, and the increasing vigor and life, and 
for the indwelling of His mighty spirit of 
power. In Jesus' blessed name. Amen. 

16th Day 

Luke 13: 10. And he was teaching in one of 
the synagogues on the sabbath. 

11 And, behold, there was a woman which 
had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and 
was bowed together, and could in no wise lift 
up herself. 

12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to 
him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed 
from thine infirmity. 

13 And he laid his hands on her: and immedi- 
ately she was made straight, and glorified God. 

14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered . 
with indignation, because that Jesus had healed 
on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, 
There are six days in which men ought to work: 
in them therefore come and be healed and not 
on the sabbath day. 

15 The Lord then answered him, and said, 
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the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the 
stall, and lead him away to watering? 

16 And ought not this woman, being a daugh- 
ter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, 
these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond 
on the sabbath day? 

17 And when he had said these things, all 
his adversaries were ashamed: and all the peo- 
ple rejoiced for all the glorious things that were 
done by him. 

18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom 
of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? 

19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a 
man took, and cast into his garden; and it 
grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of 
the air lodged in the branches of it. 

20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken 
the Kingdom of God? 

21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and 
hid in three measures of meal, till the whole 
was leavened. 

22 And he went through the cities and vil- 
lages, teaching, and journeying toward Jeru- 
salem. 

Meditation — Help me O God to see the de- 
veloping nature of real and solid blessings. 
Prayer for the Sixteenth Day 

Grant unto us. O Lord and Master, that 
divine and blessed patience, by which we may 
sometimes wait, and may just stand still, and 
see the salvation of our God. We are Thy 
workmen, doing Thy will, and Thou hast given 
us the material with which to work. We are 
the sowers of the seed. We are planters of the 
leaven, and we believe and know that if we in 
patience possess our souls, we shall yet see the 
successful issue. O God, though ever busy in 
the vineyard, help us not to rush the harvest, 
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and the sweet, pure, fresh air of God do its 
work in our lives, and perfect our souls and 
bodies. Let us be not weary in well doing, for 
in due time we shall reap, if we faint not. 
Grant it all in Jesus name. Amen. 

17th Day 

Luke 14: 1. And it came to pass, as he went 
into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to 
eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched 
him. 

2 And, behold, there was a certain man be- 
fore him which had the dropsy. 

3 And Jesus answering spake unto the law- 
yers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal 
on the sabbath day? 

4 And they held their peace. And he took 
him, and healed him, and let him go; 

5 And answered them, saying, Which of you 
shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and 
will not straightway pull him out on the sab- 
bath day? 

6 And they could not answer him again to 
these things. 

7 And he put forth a parable to those which 
were bidden, when he marked how they chose 
out the chief rooms; saying unto them, 

8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wed- 
ding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a 
more honourable man than thou be bidden of 
him, 

9 And he that bade thee and him come and 
say to thee. Give this man a place; and thou 
begin with shame to take the lowest room. 

10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down 
in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee 
cometh, he may say unto thee. Friend, go up 
higher: then shalt thou have worship in the 
presence of them that sit at meat with thee. 



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11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be 
abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be 
exalted. 

Meditation — I hold my spirit this day in 
Godly humility and obedient restraint. 

Prayer for the Seventeenth Day 
Great is our Lord and of great power, His 
understanding is infinite. He telleth the num- 
ber of the stars, and calleth them all by their 
names. He lifteth up the meek, he healeth the 
broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds, in 
body. It is to Thee, as Master and Healer of 
our broken lives, we come. Thou canst save 
us, and Thou alone. Who have I to trust be- 
side Thee? and there is none in heaven to 
bless, but Thee. O Master, remove all that is 
amiss, and rebuke all evil. Cast out all the 
untoward spirit, and come Thou in, and make 
my life Thy dwelling place. And to Thee we 
give the honor and the praise as we grow in 
grace, and in spiritual power and in bodily 
vigor — and in the beauty of holiness. In Jesus' 
name. Amen. 



18th Day 



Luke 17: 11. And it came to pass, as he went 
to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst 
of Samaria and Galilee. 

12 And as he entered into a certain village, 
there met him ten men that were lepers, which 
stood afar off: 

13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, 
Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. 

14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, 
Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it 
came to pass, that, as they went, they were 
cleansed. 



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15 And one of them, when he saw that he 
was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice 
glorified God, * 

16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giv- 
ing him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. 

17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not 
ten cleansed? but were are the nine? 

18 There are not found that returned to give 
glory to God, save this stranger. 

19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: 
thy faith hath made thee whole. 

20 And when he was demanded of the Phari- 
sees, when the kingdom of God should come, 
he answered them and said, The kingdom of 
God corneth not with observation: 

21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo 
there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within 
you. 

22 And he said unto the disciples, The days 
will come, when ye shall desire to see one of 
the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not 
see it. 

23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, 
see there: go not after them, nor follow them. 

24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of 
the one part under heaven, shineth unto the 
other part under heaven, so also shall the Son 
of man be, in his day. But first must he suffer 
many things and be rejected of this generation. 

Meditation — Though in this generation it be 
unpopular I will accept divine truth. 

Prayer for the Eighteenth Day 
Eternal Teacher of the soul, give us the divine 
discernment to understand Thee, and to realize 
the words in very fact, that the kingdom of 
heaven is within us. That Saint Paul speaks most 
truly when he says, "Be ye transformed, by the 
renewing of your minds." O God, renew our 
minds this day, and so have our lives, our souls, 



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our bodies transformed. Renew our thoughts 
and plans and especially our angle on life. Help 
us to see and to believe that it really is more 
blessed to give than to receive, that he that 
loseth his own life and his own little plans in 
Thee and in Thy gospel of love and truth and 
peace and healing,, — the same shall save it, yea, 
shall multiply it, both now and unto life Eter- 
nal. Give us the outward upward look, in 
order to procure joy and hope and health and 
all good things: and to Thee be the glory. In 
Jesus' name. Amen. 

19th Day 

Luke 22: 47. And while he yet spake, behold 
a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one 
of the twelve, went before them, and drew near 
unto Jesus to kiss him. 

48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest 
thou the Son of man with a kiss? 

49 When they which were about him saw 
what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, 
shall we smite with the sword? 

50 And one of them smote the servant of the 
high priest, and cut off his right ear. 

51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye 
thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed 
him. 

52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and 
captains of the temple, and the elders, which 
were come to him, Be ye come out, as against 
a thief, with swords and staves? 

53 When I was daily with you in the temple, 
ye stretched forth no hands against me: but 
this is your hour, and the power of darkness. 

54 Then took they him, and led him, and 
brought him into the high priest's house. And 
Peter followed afar off. 

55 And when they had kindled a fire in the 



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midst of the hall, and were set down together, 
Peter set down among them. 

56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat 
by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and 
said, This man was also with him. 

57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I 
know him not. 

58 And after a little while another saw him, 
and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter 
said, Man, I am not. 

59 And about the space of one hour after 
another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth 
this fellow also was with him; for he is a Gali- 
lean. 

60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what 
thou sayest, And immediately while he yet 
spake, the cock crew. 

61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon 
Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the 
Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the 
cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. 

62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly. 
Meditation — I am resolved not to in any 

way deny my Lord. 

Prayer for the Nineteenth Day 

Almighty and Everlasting God, King of 
Kings and Lord of Lords, our lives are in the 
hollow of Thy hand. Thou dost take note of 
the sparrow's fall, so surely Thou art touched 
with the feeling of our infirmities, for Thou 
knowest our frame, Thou rememberest that we 
are dust. And Thou hast given Thine angels 
charge over us, to keep us in all our ways, lest 
at some time we might hurt our foot upon a 
stone. Surely Thou hast borne our sickness 
and carried our sorrows. Thou wast wounded 
for our transgressions and bruised for our ini- 
cmities, the chastisement of our peace was upon 
Thee, and by Thy stripes we are healed. Com- 



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pletely healed, O merciful and compassionate 
Christ. For this wondrous and infinite heal- 
ing, how can we thank Thee? Receive us in 
Jesus' name. Amen. 



20th Day 



John 4: 43. Now after two days he departed 
thence, and went into Galilee. 

44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet 
hath no honour in his own country. 

45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the 
Galileans received him, having seen all the 
things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for 
they also went unto the feast. 

46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, 
where he made the water wine. And there was 
a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at 
Capernaum. 

47 When he heard that Jesus was come out 
of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him, and 
besought him that he would come down, and 
heal his son: for he was at the point of death. 

48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see 
signs and wonders, ye will not believe. 

49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come 
down ere my child die. 

50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son 
liveth. And the man believed the word that 
Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his 
way. 

51 And as he was now going down, his ser- 
vants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son 
liveth. 

52 Then inquired he of them the hour when 
he began to amend. And they said unto him, 
Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left 
him. 

53 So the father knew that it was at the same 



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hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy 
son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole 
house. 

Meditation — When we believe, we live; and 
when we live believing, we cannot die. 

Prayer for the Twentieth Day 
Holy One of Israel, Ancient of Days, our 
lives are laid upon Thine Altar, even as Abra- 
ham the faithful, laid his son Isaac on the 
altar. We delight to do Thy will, O God, we 
rejoice in Thy truth, w'e live in Thy heart. Thou 
art All in All, our Maker, Redeemer and Pre- 
server, the Author and Finisher of our faith. 
Mold us O God for Thy holy purpose, and 
make us fit for the Master's use. Teach us to 
pray. Lord increase our faith. For the just 
shall live by faith. Consecrate us now to this 
Thy Healing Ministry, and to the full entire 
gospel of Thy blessed Son. May we have the 
definite and firm realization that earnest prayer 
changes the whole face of life for us, and that 
it brings us health, happiness and prosperity. 
It overcomes obstacles, removes mountains, 
clarifies clouded intellects and cheers the sad- 
dened hearts. O may my life be filled with 
prayer unceasing. In Jesus' precious name. 
Amen. 

21st Day 

John 5: 1. After this there was a feast of 
the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 

2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep 
market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew 
tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 

3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent 
folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the 
moving of the water. 

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son into the pool, and troubled the water: 
whosoever then first after the troubling of the 
water stepped in was made whole of whatso- 
ever disease he had. 

5 And a certain man was there, which had 
an infirmity thirty and eight years. 

6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he 
had been now a long time in that case, he saith 
unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 

7 The impotent man answered him. Sir, I 
have no man, when the water is troubled, to 
put me into the pool: but while I am coming, 
another steppeth down before me. 

8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, 
and walk. 

9 And immediately the man was made 
whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and 
on the same day was the sabbath. 

10 The Jews therefore said unto him that 
was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not law- 
ful for thee to carry thy bed. 

11 He answered them, He that made me 
whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy 
bed, and walk. 

12 Then asked they him, What man is that 
which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and 
walk? 

13 And he that was healed wist not who it 
was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a 
multitude being in that place. 

14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, 
and said unto him, Behold, thou art made 
whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come 
unto thee. 

Meditation — The forces of sin and sickness 
are put to rout, when Christ takes command 
of a life. 



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Prayer for the Twenty-first Day 

Light and darkness are both alike to Thee, 
O Lord. Sin and sickness are both the same 
to Thee, O Christ. Thy Word, O mighty 
Healer, is just as powerful and efficacious as 
the troubled waters of the cleansing pool. Help 
us to sin no more — and to be sick no more! 
Help us like the great apostle to be able to 
truly say, "The life which I now live, I live by 
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ." Then are we 
strong. Then are we kings and priests and 
conquerors, through Him that loved us and 
gave Himself for us. O Lord, for the far-flung 
vision, instead of the near-sighted view! O 
Lord, for the Healing Token, instead of the 
sellish greed! O Lord, for the mind in us, 
which was also in Christ Jesus, who came not 
to please himself, but who found the heart of 
the secret, — of health and abounding joy. In 
His dear name. Amen. 

22nd Day 

John 9: 1. And as Jesus passed by, he saw 
a man which was blind from his birth. 

2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, 
who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he 
was born blind? 

3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sin- 
ned, nor his parents: but that the works of God 
should be made manifest in him. 

4 I must work the works of him that sent 
me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no 
man can work. 

5 As long as I am in the world, I am the 
light of the world. 

6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the 
ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he 
anointed the eyes of the blind man with the 
clay, 



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7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool 
of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) 
He went his way therefore, and washed, and 
came seeing. 

8 The neighbours therefore, and they which 
before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is 
not this he that sat and begged? 

9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is 
like him: but he said, I am he. 

10 Therefore said they unto him, How were 
thine eyes opened? 

11 He answered and said, A man that is 
called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, 
and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and 
wash: and I went and washed, and I received 
sight. 

12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? 
He said, I know not. 

13 They brought to the Pharisees him that 
aforetime was blind. 

14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus 
made the clay, and opened his eyes. 

15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him 
how he had received his sight. He said unto 
them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I 
washed, and do see. 

16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This 
man is not of God, because he keepeth not the 
sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that 
is a sinner do such miracles? And there was 
a division among them. 

Meditation — The truth of God opens the blind 
eyes of His children — always. 

Prayer for the Twenty-second Day 

Jehovah-Ropha, the Lord Thy Healer, from 
the foundation of the world even until now; 
we humbly beseech Thee that Thou wilt grant 
Thy spirit of truth and love to till our hearts. 
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how can we love our Heavenly Father whom 
we have not seen? Take possession of our 
souls, O God, — fill us with Thy free spirit. 
Give us the touch of Thy healing hand and 
open Thy wondrous Book to us. May the Bible 
Healing ministry be blessed of God, and may 
His word not return unto Him void. May it 
accomplish that which He .shall please, and 
prosper in the thing whereto He has sent it. 
May the leaves of that Book of life, be for the 
healing of the nations. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

23rd Day 

Acts 3: 1. Now Peter and John went up to- 
gether into the temple at the hour of prayer, 
being the ninth hour. 

2 And a certain man lame from his mother's 
womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the 
gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to 
ask alms of them that entered into the temple; 

3 Who, seeing Peter and John about to go 
into the temple, asked an alms. 

4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him 
with John, said, Look on us. 

5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting 
to receive something of them. 

6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I 
none; but such as I have give I thee: In the 
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and 
walk. 

7 And he took him by the right hand, and 
lifted him up: and immediately his feet and 
ankle bones received strength. 

8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and 
entered with them into the temple, walking, 
and leaping, and praising God: 

9 And all the people saw him walking and 
praising God: 

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for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: 
and they were filled with wonder and amaze- 
ment at that which had happened unto him. 

11 And as the lame man which was healed 
held Peter and John, all the people ran together 
unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, 
greatly wondering. 

Meditation — Gratitude is the heart's native 
tongue, — praise is its sweetest tune. 

Prayer for the Twenty-third Day 

Teach us that secret O Christ, which causes 
such joy, and such hope and such strength, in 
those who are touched by Thy gospel. We 
read that they that wait upon the Lord shall 
renew their strength; they shall mount up with 
wings as eagles, they shall run and not be 
weary; they shall walk and not faint. And we 
find this impotent man lame from his mother's 
womb, when touched by Thy gospel raising 
up and walking and leaping and praising God. 
We want that secret power. We want the re- 
juvenating Christ. We want full salvation, for 
we cannot be satisfied with the husks of the 
world, or with the outward forms of life. We 
desire Thine -inner realities. We want real 
peace and healing, which Thou alone dost give. 
In Jesus' name. Amen. 

24th Day 

Acts 5: 11. And great fear came upon all 
the church, and upon as many as heard these 
things. 

12 And by the hands of the apostles were 
many signs and wonders wrought among the 
people; (and they were all with one accord in 
Solomon's porch. 

13 And of the rest durst no man join himself 
to them; but the people magnified them. 



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14 And believers were the more added to the 
Lord, multitudes both of men and women;) 

15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick 
into the streets, and laid them on beds and 
couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter 
passing by might overshadow some of them. 

16 There came also a multitude out of the 
cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick 
folks, and them which were vexed with unclean 
spirits: and they were healed every one. 

17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they 
that were with him, (which is the sect of the 
Sadducees.) and were filled with indignation. 

18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and 
put them in the common prison. 

19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened 
the prison doors, and brought them forth, and 
said, 

20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the 
people all the words of this life. 

21 And when they heard that, they entered 
into the temple early in the morning, and 
taught. But the high priest came, and they 
that were with him, and called the council to- 
gether, and all the senate of the children of 
Israel, and sent to the prison to have them 
brought. 

22 But when the officers came, and found 
them not in the prison, they returned, and told, 

23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut 
with all safety, and the keepers standing with- 
out before the doors: but when we had opened, 
we found no man within. 

Meditation — No prison can hold a spirit 
touched by the truth of Christ. 

Prayer for the Twenty-fourth Day 

The truth and the spirit of Thy Son, O God, 
permits no one to remain in bondage. For if 
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indeed. The slavery of the race; our own bond- 
age to the passing things of the corporal sense, 
has been so pathetic! It has been our most 
fearsome enemy. Free is that soul who thinks 
Thy thoughts. Stone walls do not a prison 
make, nor iron bars a cage; only our own small 
and unworthy concepts of life enthrall and en- 
slave us. But now we are free. Now we are 
joyful. Now we are well and full of vigor in 
our entire Being, and our nature sings with joy. 
Forgetting those things which are behind, and 
reaching forth unto those things which are be- 
fore, I press toward the mark, for the prize of 
the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I con- 
stantly attain the Christly, perfect, life. In 
Jesus' name. Amen. 



25th Day 

Acts 8: 1. And Saul was consenting unto 
his death. And at that time there was a great 
persecution against the church which was at 
Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad 
throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, 
except the apostles. 

2 And devout men carried Stephen to his 
burial, and made great lamentation over him. 

3 As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, 
entering into every house, and haling men and 
women committed them to prison. 

4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad 
went everywhere preaching the word. 

5 Then Philip went down to the city of Sa- 
maria, and preached Christ unto them. 

6 And the people with one accord gave heed 
unto those things which Philip spake, hearing 
and seeing the miracles which he did. 

7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, 
came out of many that were possessed with 



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them: and many taken with palsies, and that 
were lame, were healed. 

8 And there was great joy in that city. 

Meditation — Joy is the sure consequence of 
giving heed to truth. 

Prayer for the Twenty-fifth Day 

O Christ; the unclean and the palsied, the 
blind, limping and the afflicted, they all cry out 
for Jesus' help. All men seek for Thee. Sooner 
or later the whole world goes out after Thee. 
Christ of God, give our feeble lives the ability 
to point them to Thee. Give our poor mirrors 
the power to reflect Thyself. Give our weak 
throats the power at least to be a voice in the 
wilderness, crying, Prepare ye the way of the 
Lord; enable our hands to transmit the healing 
touch of Christ. May we at least announce, 
Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the 
sin of the world. And then as He heals them, 
may we decrease while He shall increase. In 
Jesus' precious name. Amen. 

26th Day 

Acts 9: 32. And it came to pass, as Peter 
passed throughout all quarters, he came down 
also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda. 

33 And there he found a certain man named 
Eneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and 
was sick of the palsy. 

34 And Peter said unto him, Eneas, Jesus 
Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy 
bed. And he arose immediately. 

35 And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron 
saw him, and turned to the Lord. 

36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple 
named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called 
Dorcas; this woman was full of good works and 
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37 And it came to pass in those days, that 
she was sick, and died: whom when they had 
washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. 

38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to 
Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter 
was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring 
him that -he would not delay to come to them. 

39 Then Peter arose and went with them. 
When he was come, they brought him into the 
upper chamber: and all the widows stood by 
him weeping, and shewing the coats and gar- 
ments which Dorcas made, while she was with 
them. 

40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled 
down, and prayed; and turning him to the body 
said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: 
and when she saw Peter, she sat up. 

41 And he gave her his hand, and lifted her 
up: and when he had called the saints and 
widows, he presented her alive. 

42 And it was known throughout all Joppa; 
and many believed in the Lord. 

43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many 
days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner. 

Meditation — The Lord will visit and tarry 
with any one who will entertain Him. 

Prayer for the Twenty-sixth Day 

O Thou Saviour and Friend of the children; 
Thou who wast once a child Thyself, we praise 
Thee for Thy childlike love. We bless Thee 
also because Thou didst take the little children 
and lay Thy hands upon their heads in blessing. 
O Christ, the world needs love and blessing 
now. We are but children still, and we crave 
Thy hands of healing upon our own heads. 
We would look into Thy face and tell Thee all 
our troubles. They are trifling, but they appear 
to us so big — they seem like mountains. But 
when we come to Thee and live in Thee they 



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disappear and vanish away. Cast thy burden 
on the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He 
shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. 
For the path of the just, is as the shining light, 
that shineth more and more, unto the perfect 
day. Grant us this healing, sanctifying light. 
In Jesus' name. Amen. 

27th Day 

Acts 14: 5. And when there was an assault 
made both of the Gentiles, and also of the 
Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, 
and to stone them. 

6 They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra 
and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the 
region that lieth round about: 

7 And there they preached the gospel. 

8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, im- 
potent in his feet, being a cripple from his 
mother's womb, who never had walked: 

9 The same heard Paul speak: who stead- 
fastly beholding him, and perceiving that he 
had faith to be healed. 

10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on 
thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 

11 And when the people saw what Paul had 
done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the 
speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down 
to us in the likeness of men. 

12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and 
Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief 
speaker. 

13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was be- 
fore their city, -brought oxen and garlands unto 
the gates, and would have done sacrifice with 
the people. 

14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and 
Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran 
in among the people, crying out. 



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15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? 
We also are men of like passions with you, and 
preach unto you that ye should turn from these 
vanities unto' the living God, which made 
heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things 
that are therein: 

16 Who in times past suffered all nations to 
walk in their own ways. 

17 Nevertheless he left not himself without 
witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain 
from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our 
hearts with food and gladness. 

18 And with these sayings scarce restrained 
they the people, that they had not done sacrifice 
unto them. 

Meditation — By virtue of my divine birthright 
I will stand upright on my feet. 

Prayer for the Twenty-seventh Day 

Merciful Saviour, Healer of Mankind, help us 
this day to leap up and walk. We have hung 
our heads in sin and shame, and we have 
stooped and limped and shuffled under our 
bodily afflictions. But we have heard the thrill- 
ing voice, saying, "Jesus Christ maketh Thee 
whole," and now we are trusting in Him. My 
faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary. 
If He Himself took our infirmities and bare 
our sickness on the cross, why need we try to 
bare the load? If he shed his blood for remis- 
sion of our sins, and had His body broken for 
the healing of our bodies, shall we not accept 
His gift? We do, O Christ, accept Thy gift, 
and now lay hold upon abundant life. We have 
learned at last the meaning of the life which is 
lived in God's presence. Make us wholly Thine 
today. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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28th Day 



Acts 28: 1. And when they were escaped, 
' then they knew that the island was called Me- 
lita. 

2 And the barbarous people shewed us no 
little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and 
received us every one, because of the present 
rain, and because of the cold. 

3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of 
sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a 
viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. 

4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous 
beast hang on his hand, they said among them- 
selves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, 
though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance 
suffereth not to live. 

5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, 
and felt no harm. 

6 Howbeit they looked when he should have 
swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but 
after they had looked a great while, and saw 
no harm come to him, they changed their minds, 
and said that he was a god. 

7 In the same quarters were possessions of 
the chief man of the island, whose name was 
Publius; who received us, and lodged us three 
days courteously. 

8 And it came to pass, that the father of Pub- 
lius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to 
whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his 
hands on him, and healed him. 

9 So when this was done, others also, which 
had diseases in the island, came, and were 
healed. 

Meditation — The great loving Hand is on me 
and I am made whole today. 



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Prayer for the Twenty-eighth Day 

Almighty and ever-adorable God, we stand 
today between two worlds. Eternity spreads 
out before us. Good and evil are in conflict. 
The angel and the beast are beckoning, one on 
either side. Fear, hatred, passion, worry, sick- 
ness, and sin, are on the one hand; and on the 
other, God, life, health, peace, prosperity and 
joy. Help us to gird up our loins, O Christ, 
and like Thy servant Paul, shake off the beast, 
and travel on toward emancipation and eternal 
light. Endue us with Thy Holy Spirit, and give 
us Thy full healing and salvation for our entire 
Being, body, mind and spirit, and Thine will be 
the glory and the praise. In Jesus' precious 
name. Amen. 



29th Day 

James 5: 10. Take, my brethren, the pro- 
phets, who have spoken in the name of the 
Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and 
of patience. 

11 Behold, we count them happy which en- 
dure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, 
and have seen the end of the Lord; that the 
Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 

12 But above all things, my brethren, swear 
not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, 
neither by any other oath: but let your yea be 
yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into con- 
demnation. 

13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. 
Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 

14 Is any sick among you? let him call for 
the elders of the church; and let them pray over 
him, anointing him with oil in the name of the 
Lord: 

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, 



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and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have 
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 

16 Confess your faults one to another, and 
pray one for another, that ye may be healed. 
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous 
prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 

Meditation — I would learn to pray a fervent 
righteous prayer. 

Prayer for the Twenty-ninth Day 

Thy glorious Church, O Christ of God, is 
challenged to the vital test. Like Thine Apostle 
of ancient days, we too believe in the saving 
and healing mission for Thy church. He was 
but obeying Thy direct command when He gave 
direction for this ministry. He had heard Thy 
very lips instruct him frequently, to preach the 
kingdom, heal the sick. May we be as mindful 
of Thy will. O may we not be longer guilty 
of this disobedience! May we, if we presume 
to call ourselves followers and disciples, also 
do as Thou didst do, and as Thou didst ever 
tell Thy followers. And may we O God have 
faith in Thee to heal us. When we suffer be 
Thou our helper. When we languish, hold 
Thou us up. And may this Thy servant feel 
within him now Thine omnipotent and saving 
power. In Jesus' precious name. Amen. 

30th Day 

I. Peter 2: 9. But ye are a chosen generation, 
a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar 
people; that ye should shew forth the praises of 
him who hath called you out of darkness into 
his marvellous light: 

10 Which in time past were not a people, but 
are now the people of God: which had not ob- 
tained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 

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and pilgrims, abstain from fleshty lusts, which 
war against the soul: 

12 Having your conversation honest among 
the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against 
you as evil doers, they may by your good 
works, which they shall behold, glorify God in 
the day of visitation. 

13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of 
man for the Lord's sake; whether it be to the 
king, as supreme; 

14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are 
sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, 
and for the praise of them that do well. 

15 For so is the will of God, that with well 
doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of 
foolish men: 

16 As free, and not using your liberty for a 
cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of 
God. 

17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. 
Fear God. Honour the king. 

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with 
all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but 
also to the froward. 

19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for 
conscience toward God endure grief, suffering 
wrongfully. 

20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be 
buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it pat- 
iently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for 
it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with 
God. 

21 For even hereunto were ye called: be- 
cause Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an 
example, that ye should follow his steps: 

22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in 
his mouth: 

23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not 
again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but 



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committed himself to him that judgeth right- 
eously. 

24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own 
body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, 
should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes 
ye were healed. 

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but 
are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop 
of your souls. 

Meditation — That I might truly triumph I 
would know how to sacrifice. 

Prayer for the Thirtieth Day 

Healed by Thy stripes, O Christ! Redeemed 
by the blood of the everlasting covenant! How 
shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? 
May thy lost and wandering sheep return now 
from the barren mountain sides, and enter once 
more into the fold of Thine arms. O God we 
have been battered. The bitter winds have 
chilled our bones through and through, and 
the rocks have torn our flesh most fearfully. 
The wolves have given fright to our souls, and 
we have been bleeding and hunted and terrified! 
The world has been a little too much for us. 
We confess it. Now we come to Thee, for 
Thou hast overcome the world. Take us into 
Thy bright heart, O Shepherd of lonely deso- 
late souls, and Healer of shattered and battered 
bodies. Give us complete restoration now. Tn 
Jesus' name. Amen. 

31st Day 

III. John 1. The elder unto the well beloved 
Gaius, whom I love in the truth. 

2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou 
mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy 
soul prospereth. 

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came and testified of the truth that is in thee, 
even as thou walkest in the truth. 

4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my 
children walk in truth. 

5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever 
thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; 

6 Which have borne witness of thy charity 
before the church: whom if thou bring forward 
on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt 
do well: 

7 Because that for his name's sake they went 
forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 

8 We therefore ought to receive such, that 
we might be fellow helpers to the truth. 

9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, 
who loveth to have the preeminence among 
them, receiveth us not. 

10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his 
deeds which he doeth, prating against us with 
malicious words: and not content therewith, 
neither doth he himself receive the brethren, 
and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth 
them out of the church. 

11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but 
that which is good. He that doeth good is of 
God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. 

12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, 
and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear 
record; and ye know that our record is true. 

13 I had many things to write, but I will not 
with ink and pen write unto thee: 

14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we 
shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. 
Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by 
name. 

Prayer for the Thirty-first Day 

Our Father which art in heaven, we know 
that Thou dost want us to prosper and be in 
health, even as our soul prospereth. And our 



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souls prosper only as they draw their breath 
from Thee. Breathe into us the breath of life, 
O God, that our Beings may be vitalized and 
we feel Thy heart throbs within our breast. 
We are ever conscious that Thou art our life 
Thou knowest our downsittings and our up- 
risings. Thou art All in All. Give me. O God, 
a fuller consciousness of Thy presence, and let 
me sing forth thy praises as long as I live. 
Let my life be a song of praise for Thy help 
and Thy strength. And let the words of my 
mouth and the meditation of my heart be ac- 
ceptable in Thy sight, O Lord my strength and 
my Redeemer. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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TOPICAL SCRIPTURE READING 
AND PRAYERS 

(Arranged Alphabetically) 

FIRST DAY 

ABUNDANCE 

1 I am come that they might have life; and 
that they might have it more abundantly. Jno. 
10: 10. 

2 A faithful man shall abound with blessings. 
Prov. 28: 20. 

3 I will cure them, and will reveal unto them 
the abundance of peace and truth. Jer. 33: 6. 

4 Unto every one that hath shall be given, 
and he shall have abundance. Matt. 25: 29. 

5 The meek shall inherit the earth, and shall 
delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 
Ps. 57: 11. 

6 The Grace of our Lord was exceeding abun- 
dant, with faith and love which is in Jesus 
Christ. I Tim. 14. 

7 Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding 
abundantly above all that ye ask or think. 
Eph. 3: 20. 

Meditation — There shall nothing be lacking, 
for God shall supply all your need. 
Prayer 

Out of Thine infinite abundance, 0. God, Thou 
dost give to the needy. The storehouse of love 
and of healing is ever open to the sons of men, 
and they are invited to come and receive of 
Thy bounty. I accept Thy great offer just now, 
and I rest my soul in Thee. My heart is sur- 
rendered unto Thy will; and Thou art the Pilot 
of my life. Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah, 
into all Thy truth. Receive my thanksgiving 
and praise; and pardon all my sins. Fill me 
with Thine own free spirit, and save me for Thy 
mercies sake. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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SECOND DAY 

BROTHERHOOD 

Love the brotherhood — fear God. I. Peter 
11: 17. 

Am I my brother's keeper? Gen. 4: 9. 

I behaved as though he had been my brother. 
Ps. 35: 14. 

Behold how good and how beautiful a thing 
it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity. 
Ps. 132: 1. 

He that doeth the will of my Father which is 
in Heaven, the same is my brother. Matt. 12: 
50. 

I am distressed for thee, my brother. II. 
Sam. 1 : 26. 

He that loveth God, loveth His brother. 1. 
Jno. 4: 21. 

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the 
light. Jno. 2: 10. 

Meditation — Only when loving our brother 
whom we have seen, can we love God whom 
we have not seen. 

Prayer 

Thou art our Master, O Christ, and all we are 
brethren. Help me, O Lord to realize the great 
Fatherhood of God, and to feel the sweet bro- 
therhood of all God's little ones. Help me to 
be kind to the unthankful, loving to the un- 
lovely and charitable to all my brethren. May 
I ever be strong in the Lord and in the power 
of His might, for I know that God is my 
strength and I shall not be moved. In Thee I 
find fullness of hope, and I shall find life ever- 
lasting. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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THIRD DAY 

CONTENTMENT 

Godliness with contentment is great gain. 
I. Tim. 6: 6. 

Now therefore be content. Look upon me. 
Job 6: 28. 

Be content with your wages. Luke 3: 14. 

Having food and raiment, let us be therewith 
content. I. Tim. 6: 8. 

I have learned in whatsoever state I am, 
therewith to be content. Phil. 4: 11. 

Be content with such things as ye have. 
Heb. 13: 5. 

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. 
Prov. 16: 20. 

He that keepeth the law, happy is he. Prov. 
29: 18. 

Meditation — Rest content, my soul, this day, 
knowing God is with thee. 
Prayer 

May I learn O Lord to be content, in the 
realization of a life which is hid with Christ 
in God. Give me now the calm untroubled 
mind, even amid a turbulent world, rejoicing 
in Thy gifts of life and love, health and happi- 
ness and full salvation. Smile upon me now, 
and I shall have that peace which passeth 
understanding which the worldly life can never 
give. Hiding beneath the shelter of Thy wings, 
I rest and wait. I renew my strength each 
hour, as I realize that Thou, the originator of 
all strength, art dwelling in me. The peace of 
mind which Thou dost give is beyond all price. 
Gold and rubies are not to be compared with it. 
It is priceless! It is Divine. With Thy help 
O God, I shall have it forever. In Jesus' name. 
Amen. 



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FOURTH DAY 

DISCERNMENT 

He that is spiritual discerneth all things. 
I. Cor. 11: 15. 

Because thou hast asked for. thyself under- 
standing to discern judgment, I have done ac- 
cording to thy word. I. Kings 3: 11. 

They shall teach my people the difference 
between the holy and the profane, and cause 
them to discern between the unclean and the 
clean. Ezek. 44: 23. 

The Word of God is a discerner of the 
thoughts and intents of the heart. Heb. 4: 12. 

To another is given discernment of spirits. 
I. Cor. 12: K 10. 

Meditation — Thou enablest me O Lord, to 
discern truth, from error, and so to rejoice in it. 

Prayer 

Thou discerner of all things, we pray for 
this gift. Clarify my judgment that I may 
prove all things, and hold fast to that which is 
good. Help me to apprehend the truth and to 
cleave to it. For with the truth I am free, and 
I am happy and I am useful. Help me to dis- 
cern between truth and error, and to choose 
the truth, and I shall find my peace. In Jesus' 
name. Amen. 

FIFTH DAY 

EXPERIENCE 

1 have learned by experience that the Lord 
hath blessed me. Gen. 30: 20. 

My heart had great experience of wisdom 
and knowledge. Eccl. 1: 16. 

Patience worketh experience, and experience 
hop. Romans 5: 4. 

Meditation — My spiritual experience is draw- 
ing me ever closer to Christ. 



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Prayer 

O God, we crave for experience. But we de- 
sire that experience which edifieth the soul and 
strengthened the body. We want the exper- 
ience of true knowledge and full confidence. 
Since experience is the great teacher, experience 
of Jesus Christ is the Greatest Teacher. O may 
I, from this hour, now experience Him in this 
entire nature of mine, so that from now on I 
feel and say that Thou art my strength and my 
song, my hiding place, my high tower, the 
Healer of all my ills. O Spirit of the Healing 
Christ, be Thou in me this day and evermore. 
And I will give Thee all the praise and all the 
glory, world without end. In Jesus' precious 
name. Amen. 

SIXTH DAY 

FAITH 

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, 
the evidence of things not seen. Heb. 11: 1. 

This is the victory that overcometh the world, 
even our faith. I. Jno. 5: 4. 

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, 
ye shall say to this mountain, Remove hence 
to yonder place, and it shall remove, and noth- 
ing shall be impossible to you. Matt. 17: 20. 

Jesus saith unto them, Have faith iri God. 
Mark 11: 22. 

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, im- 
potent in his feet, being a cripple from his 
mother's womb who had never walked. The 
same heard Paul speak, who steadfastly behold- 
ing him, and perceiving that he had faith to 
be healed said, with a loud voice, Stand upright 
on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 
Acts 14: 9. 

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Prayer 

O Lord increase our faith. As Thy disciples 
of old did plead, so we today would ask the 
same. Give us a larger, stronger, warmer, sav- 
ing, healing faith in God, who doeth all things 
well. 

Give us the faith that will really lay hold 
upon Thy promises, and that will accept Thy 
wondrous offer to us. We have all things 
through Thee. We are rich and free and strong 
and joyous in Thee. We are masters of our 
fate when we have Thee. We are rulers of our 
lives and destinies as long as Thou dost keep 
those lives. Our faith shall overcome the 
world. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

SEVENTH DAY 

GRACE 

And the child grew, and waxed strong in 
spirit filled with wisdom, and the grace of 
God was upon him. Luke 2: 40. 

And all bare him witness and wondered, at 
the gracious words which proceeded out of his 
mouth. Luke 4: 22. 

The law was given by Moses, but grace, and 
truth came by Jesus Christ. Jno. 1: 17. 

But unto every one of us is given grace. Eph. 
4: 7. 

God is able to make all grace abound to you. 
II. Cor. 9: 3. 

My grace is sufficient for thee, for my 
strength is made perfect in weakness. II. Cor. 
12: 9. 

Let your speech be always with grace, sea- 
soned with salt. That ye may know how ye 
ought to answer every man. Col. 4: 6. 

Meditation — The Grace of our Lord Jesus 
Christ — May I share it today with Him! 



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Prayer 

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with 
us today. Help me O Lord to live Thy life. 
May the sweet and gentle graciousness which 
marked the Master, mark His child also. May 
that mild and winning attitude and bearing, so 
possess my person that I may be enabled to 
enlist others in Thy cause. May I make Thy 
gospel appear so beautiful that my fellowmen 
will want it likewise. Give me Thy grace, and 
endue me with Thy spirit — then will I teach 
transgressors Thy way, and sinners shall be 
converted unto Thee. Then shall the children 
of men have the Healing of God. In Jesus' 
name. Amen. 



EIGHTH DAY 

HEALTH 

For I will restore health unto Thee and I 
will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. 
Jer. 30: 17. 

Beloved I wish above all things that thou 
mayest prosper and be in health, even as Thy 
soul prospereth. III. Jno. 2. 

Behold I will bring health and cure. Jer. 
23: 6. 

God is the health of my countenance and my 
God. Ps. 42: 11. 

My words are life with those that find them, 
and health to all their flesh. Prov. 4: 22. 

The tongue of the wise is health. Prov. 
12: 18. 

Take some meat, for this is for your health. 
Acts 27: 34. 

Meditation — Obedience to God's law is the 
price, — of health, which He offers, — if you will 
pay it. 



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Prayer 

God be merciful unto us and bless us, and 
cause His face to shine upon us. That Thy 
way may be known upon the earth. Thy saving 
health among all nations. Thou hast promised 
to bring us health O God, and cure of body and 
of soul. Teach us the rules of health. Teach 
us Thy ways. For in Thee is health and new- 
ness of life. Thy purity, O God, is the pre- 
scription for all health, and Thy truth fulfills 
every diagnosis. Now I know that Thy truth 
is become my shield and buckler, and I shall 
not fear nor ever be dismayed, for Thou art 
with me, Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort 
me. So be it in Jesus' name. Amen. 

NINTH DAY 

IMMORTALITY 

Our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath abolished 
death and brought life and immortality to 
light through the gospel. II. Tim. 1: 10. 

This mortal must put on immortality. I. Cor. 
15: 53. 

The Lord of Lords who only hath immor- 
tality. I. Tim. 6: 16. 

To them who by patient continuance in well 
doing, seek for glory and honour and immor- 
tality. Rom. 2: 7. 

Now unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invi- 
sible, the only wise God, be honour and glory 
for ever and ever. I. Tim. 1 : 17. 

Meditation — Today is the vestibule of the 
house called immortality. Enter it like a man! 

Prayer 

Eternal, Immortal, Invisible One, Thou who 
dost inhabit Eternity, and of whom we know 
that none can stay Thy hand or say what doest 
Thou? — we pray for the intimation and sure evi- 



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dence of immortality in our own bodies — and 
in our spirits, which are Thine. Lord make me 
to know mine end, even as my beginning. Thou 
only art the Author and the Finisher, — Thou 
the only Healer. Touch now this body and 
this soul, so that this mortal shall put on im- 
mortality, and that He that raised up Christ 
from the dead shall now quicken and enliven 
this mortal body. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

TENTH DAY 

JUSTICE 

Justice and judgment are the habitation of 
thy throne. Ps. 85: 14. 

He is excellent in power and in judgment and 
in plenty of justice. He will not afflict. Job. 
37: 23. 

Absolom said, moreover, O that I were made 
judge in the land, that every man which hath 
my suit or cause might come unto me, and I 
would do him justice. II. Sam. 15: 4. 

What doth the Lord require of Thee, but to 
do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly 
with thy God. Micah. 6: 8. 

Of the increase of His Government and peace, 
there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, 
and upon his Kingdom to order it, and to es- 
tablish it with judgment and with justice from 
henceforth even for ever. Isaiah 9: 7. 

Meditation — Justice sweetened with mercy is 
as the perfume of the lily. 
Prayer 

God of Justice, holy and true, in whom is no 
unrighteousness whatsoever, we confess to 
Thee alone, as being the one worthy to hear and 
weigh our cause. If we confess our sins, Thou 
art faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and 
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We 
would be like Thee, from whom we spring, and. 



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in whose image we are made. May we reflect 
as in a mirror Thy beauty and Thy truth! O 
shape and fashion our wills and lives so as to 
be fit for the Master's use! Give us to feel this 
day the wondrous power of love, and judgment, 
and justice, and healing. We ask it all with 
the pardon of our sins and the acceptance of 
our worship. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

ELEVENTH DAY 
KINDNESS 

Thy loving kindness is before mine eyes, and 
I have Walked in Thy truth. Ps. 26: 3. 

I will mention the loving kindness of the 
Lord. Is. 63: 7. 

O praise the Lord all ye nations, praise Him 
all ye people. For His merciful kindness is 
great toward us, and the truth of the Lord en- 
dureth forever. Praise ye the Lord. Ps. 117, 

With everlasting kindness will I have mercy 
on Thee saith the Lord, Thy redeemer. Is. 
54: 8. 

Put on therefore as the elect of God, holy 
and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, hum- 
bleness of mind. Col. 3: 12. 

O Lord Thy loving kindness is before mine 
eyes. Ps. 26: 3. 

Meditation — To be kind is so simple and 
easy to speak of, but requires constant thought 
to do. 

Prayer 

Thy loving kindness, O blessed Christ, is ever 
before me. When I remember the Father's 
unlimited love, I also, would love all men, yea, 
even mine enemies, for He is kind to the un- 
thankful and the evil. Help me, O Christ to 
minister in Thy name in a world which is 
hungering and thirsting for the milk of human 
kindness, Help me to witness for Thee. Then 



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shall I be blest, and I shall know the beauty 
and the comfort, and the energizing power, 
which is found in being lost in Thee, and in 
being gathered under the fold of Thy healing 
wings. Thus redeem and save me, O Lord for 
Thy mercy's sake. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

TWELFTH DAY 

LOVE 

His banner over me is love. Cant. 2: 4. 

His banner to me was wonderful, passing 
the love of women. II. Sam. 1: 26. 

The love of Christ constraineth us. II. Cor. 
5: 14. 

The fruit of the Spirit is love. Gal. 5: 22. 

I have loved thee with an everlasting love. 
Jer. 31: 3. 

By this shall all men know that ye are my 
disciples, if ye love one another. Jno. 13: 35. 

He that loveth not, knoweth not God — for 
God is love. I. Jno. 4: 8. 

Behold how he loved him! Jno. 11: 36. 

Behold what manner of love the Father hath 
bestowed upon us. that we should be called the 
sons of God. I. Jno. 3: 1. 

Meditation — Armies and thrones are feeble 
compared to the marvelous power of love. 
Prayer 

Fountain of light and life and love, teach me 
Thy secret. Make me to know the healing 
mystery of love. Cause me to realize the deeper 
significance of His Calvary, as the culmination 
of divine Eternal love. He there took our 
infirmities and bore our sicknesses. He there 
as the good shepherd of our souls, lay down His 
life for the sheep. May we not love its mean- 
ing. May we not pass on, and miss His loving 
message and His healing atonement for the 
world. He says, "as the Father hath loved me, 



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even so love I you, and greater love hath no 
man than this, that a man lay down his life for 
his friend." I give my life in return for Thy 
life, and therein I find my spirit healed and 
my body restored. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

THIRTEENTH DAY 

MERCY 

The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to 
everlasting. Ps. 103: 17. 

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain 
mercy. Matt. 5: 7. 

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind 
them about thy neck, write them upon the table 
of thine heart; so shalt thou find favor, and 
good understanding in the sight of God and 
man. Prov. 3: 3. 

The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy. 
Ps. 119: 64. 

The wisdom that is from above is full of 
mercy and good fruits. James 3: 17. 

Ye pay tithes of mint and anise, but have 
omitted the weightier matter of the law, judg- 
ment and mercy. Matt. 23: 23. 

And He said, Which was neighbor unto him 
that fell among thieves? And he said, He that 
shewed mercy. Luke 10: 37. 

Meditation — As I require Thy continued 
mercy, O Lord, give me a heart of mercy. 

Prayer 

Father of all mercies, from Thee we learn 
its blessed meaning. Without the Lord there is 
none to show mercy. And this sweetest ele- 
ment of human life finds its perfect expression 
in Thy life divine. The quality of mercy is 
not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain 
from heaven upon the place beneath. It is 
twice blessed. It blesseth him that gives and 
him that takes. 'Tis the mightiest in the might- 



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iest. It becomes the throned monarch better 
than Ijis crown. His sceptre shows the force 
of temporal power, wherein does sit the dread 
and fear of Kings. But mercy is above this 
sceptered sway. It is enthroned in the heart of 
Kings. It is an attribute of God Himself. And 
earthly power dost then show likest God's, 
where mercy seasons justice. Let not mercy 
forsake us, O Christ. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

FOURTEENTH DAY 

NEIGHBORLINESS 

Which one was neighbor to him? Luke 10: 
36. 

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 
Ex. 20. 

In that day, saith the Lord, shall ye call every 
man his neighbor, under the vine and under the 
fig tree. Zech. 3: 10. 

Let every man please his neighbor for his 
good. Rom. 15: 2. 

And ye were now turned and had done right 
in my sight in proclaiming liberty every man 
to his neighbor. Jer. 34: 15. 

And he calleth together his friends and neigh- 
bors, saying Rejoice with me for I have found 
the sheep which was lost. Luke 15: 6. 

Meditation — I shall live so as to have it said 
I was a good neighbor. 

Prayer 

Thou Christ of all humanity, let Thy chil- 
dren call every man his neighbor. Help us O 
Lord, at all times to realize that Thou hast 
made,. of one blood all men, to dwell on the face 
of the earth and that we are the children of a 
common Father. O God help us to prove 
neighbors to those we meet, b}' showing them 
Christian kindness and courtesy. Shake us out 
of -our selfish sufficiency, and teach us that Thy 



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spirit is that of service for others. The little 
attentions as well as the great, and the daily 
kindnesses to our lonely fellows, is what we 
crave, O Christ. Then shall we find our own 
happiness by losing ourselves, and then shall 
we be Thy disciples. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

FIFTEENTH DAY 

OBEDIENCE 

If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the 
good of the land. Isaiah 1: 19. 

By the obedience of one shall any be made 
righteous. Rom. 5: 19. 

Bringing every thought into captivity to the 
obedience of Christ. II. Cor. 10: 5. 

I set before you this day a blessing if ye 
obey the commandments of your God. Deut. 
11: 27. 

By faith Abraham obeyed, and he went out 
not knowing whither he went. Heb. 11: 8. 

Christ became obedient unto death even the 
death of the cross. Phil. 2: 8. 

To obey is better than sacrifice. I. Sam. 
15: 22. 

Meditation — He who learns properly to obey 
can one day reign. He shall rule over princes. 

Prayer 

Meek and lowly Jesus, who became obedient 
unto death, even the death of the cross, may I 
sit at Thy feet this day, and learn of Thee the 
lesson of obedience. O give me the willing and 
obedient spirit, that I may enter into the bless- 
ing which is in store for all Th) r children. That 
I may fully claim Thy promise, I now submit 
my will to Thee and bow in full surrender. I 
will obey Thy voice. I will do Thy will, for 
Thou art my hope and my strong rock, and I 
shall never be moved. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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SIXTEENTH DAY 

PROSPERITY 

If they obey and serve him. they shall spend 
their days in prosperity and their years in pleas- 
ure. Job. 36: 11. 

The Lord hath pleasure in the prosperity of 
His servant. Ps. 35: 27. 

In the day of prosperity be joyful. Eccl. 
7: 14. 

The Lord was with Joseph and he was a pros- 
perous man. Gen. 39: 2. 

I have brought him and he shall make his 
way prosperous. Isaiah 48: 15. 

If thou wert pure and upright, surely now 
He would awake for thee and make the habita- 
tion of thy righteousness prosperous. Job. 
8: 6. 

Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity 
within thy palaces. Ps. 122: 7. 

Meditation — God will prosper me in all my 
ways, if I with faithfulness serve Him. 

Prayer 

Thou hast told us to ask and to receive. O 
Christ, we ask Thee now for prosperity and 
peace. The world has been so full of poverty 
and adversity, and war and wounds, and evil 
doings as a result of man's short-sightedness 
and sin, that in repentance we now accept and 
take Thy promise of, healing, prosperity and 
peace. We are told in Thy word that if we 
obey and serve Thee we shall spend our days in 
prosperity. Teach me, O Lord, the meaning of 
the true and supreme prosperity; which is to be 
rich toward God. Then shall we have all our 
wishes satisfied, for He will fulfill the desire of 
them that fear Him. Teach us the literal truth 
that every good gift, and every perfect gift is 
from above. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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SEVENTEENTH DAY 

QUIETNESS 

In quietness and in confidence shall be your 
strength. Isa. 30: 15. 

The effect of righteousness shall be quietness 
and assurance forever. Isaiah 32: 17. 

It is a good thing that a man should both 
hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the 
Lord. Lam. 3: 26. 

The words of wise men are heard in quiet. 
Eccl. 9: 17. 

He leadeth me beside the waters of quietness. 
Ps. 23: 2. 

That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. 
I. Tim. 2: 2. 

The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit 
which is, in the sight of God, of great price. 
I. Peter 3: 4. 

Meditation — The key to health — as that to 
happiness — is a calm and quiet spirit. 

Prayer 

In the quiet of Thy presence, we can hear 
Thy gentle voice, whispering, Be still, and 
know that I am God. I am the Lord Thy God 
— Thy Healer. I will give thee rest. I will 
give thee riches, and wealth and honor, such as 
none of the kings have had. I will give thee 
the keys of the kingdom. Thou art now and 
ever shall be a king in thine own right, with 
mighty power. But open our eyes O Lord to 
know, that power and strength lies in the 
quiet place. Thou leadest me beside the still 
waters. And grant us to tarry in the secret 
place of the Holy One, until we be capable of 
that divinely priceless ornament of a meek 
and quiet spirit, which is the healing for the 
nations. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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EIGHTEENTH DAY 

RIGHTEOUSNESS 

The righteous Lord loveth righteousness. 
Ps. 11: 7. 

He that worketh righteousness shall never be 
moved. Ps. 15: 2. 

Righteousness and peace have kissed each 
other. Ps. 85: 10. 

The righteousness of the upright shall de- 
liver him. Prov. 11: 6. 

Better is a little with righteousness than great 
revenues. Prov. 16: 8. 

Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst 
after righteousness, for they shall be filled. 
Matt. 5: 6. 

When the centurion saw what was done, he 
glorified God saying, Certainly this was a 
righteous man. Luke 23: 47. 

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness 
for His name's sake. Ps. 23. 

Meditation — From the cup of righteousness, I 
will drink freely and so be well pleasing to God. 

Prayer 

Thou leadest us, O tender Shepherd, in the 
paths of righteousness. We have too often fol- 
lowed our own paths of self-will and worldly 
desire. We have done those things which we 
ought not to have done, and we have left un- 
done many of Thy requirements. Our thoughts 
and purposes have often been impure. But 
now O God as forgiven souls, we surrender our 
whole lives to Thee, and we have confidence 
and strength in the knowledge that Thou lead- 
est us in the paths of righteousness. We long 
and crave a righteous life. We know that 
Thou dost love righteousness and dost require 
it. Therefore we present our lives and pray 



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Thee to purge out all else, and to leave us pure 
and true, and to keep us healed and well, and 
strong in the Lord and in the power of His 
might. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

NINETEENTH DAY 

SACRIFICE 

I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mer- 
cies of God that ye present your bodies a living 
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God. Rom. 
12: 1. 

With such sacrifice God is well pleased. 
Heb. 13: 16. 

For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed 
for us. I. Cor. 5: 7. 

A sword shall pierce through thine own soul 
also. Luke 2: 35. 

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a 
broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt 
not despise. Ps. 51: 17. 

Meditation — No worth-while achievement was 
ever performed without sacrifice — nor ever will 
be! 

Prayer 

O Lamb of God, Eternal Sacrifice, from the 
foundation of the world; we would sit at Thy 
feet and learn of Thee. From contact with 
Thy life, we would know the reality of sacrifice. 
We would learn the inner mystery and meaning 
of atonement. What is the significance of the 
solemn words, "I gave my life for thee?" O 
Christ, give us again in our day a real concep- 
tion of the sacrificial spirit, amid all the tumult 
and the shouting of greedy and avaricious self- 
seeking. Grant, O God, that Thy child may be 
kept from the contagion and the blasting con- 
tamination of this most deadly of disases. Help 
me today to be like Jesus, who came not to be 
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the life of sacrifice for others, because He that 
loseth His life for may sake, and the gospel's 
the same shall save it unto life eternal. Be with 
me, and I shall live today in all things as unto 
the Lord, whose I am and whom I serve, — in 
whom I have full healing, peace and joy. In 
Jesus' name. Amen. 

TWENTIETH DAY 

TRUTH 

And Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? 
Jno. 18: 38. 

Jesus saith, I am the truth. Jno. 14: 6. 

Truth shall make you free. Jno. 8: 32. 

If the son shall make you free ye shall be 
free indeed. Jno. 8: 36. 

His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 
Ps. 91: 4. 

Buy the truth and sell it not. Prov. 23: 23. 

The lip of truth shall be established forever. 
Prov. 12: 19. 

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged. 
Prov. 16: 16. 

The only begotten, full of grace and truth. 
Jno. 1: 14. 

The church of the living God, — the pillar 
and ground of truth. I. Tim. 3: 15. 

Meditation — Truth is the pearl of great price, 
which one may appropriately sell all that he 
has to procure. 

Prayer 

Spirit of Truth, descend upon my heart. 
Possess this needy nature, and pervade this life 
of mine. O my Father, take away all falsity 
and error, because these are the source of all our 
misery. Thou source of all truth, Eternal, 
when I live in Thee entirely I have no sadness 
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made for this place I fill. I fully fit in to Thy 
plan of things, since where truth is there is no 
unharmony, no discord. Thy truth endureth to 
all generations, and Thy child in the truth 
standeth upright with fulness of joy. Thy truth 
O Christ hath made me free in soul, body and 
estate. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

TWENTY-FIRST DAY 

UNDERSTANDING 

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get 
wisdom; 'and with all thy getting get under- 
standing. Prov. 4: 7. 

Happy is the man that getteth understanding. 
Prov. 3: 13. 

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and 
lean not on thine own understanding. Prov. 
3: 5. 

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand 
His way. Prov. 14: 8. 

They that understand, among the people shall 
instruct many. Dan. 11: 33. 

The peace of God which passeth all under- 
standing. Phil. 4: 7. 

Meditation — As unto Solomon, O Lord, unto 
me also, give wisdom, and an understanding 
heart. 

Prayer 

Almighty and ever-adorable God, sweet and 
blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, majestic and 
righteous Holy Spirit, open Thou the eyes of 
mine understanding, that I may this day com- 
prehend Thee and Thy loving law, and that I 
may praise Thy name for Thy wondrous provi- 
dence. Thou hast saved me and kept me. 
Thou hast given me joy and enthusiasm. Thou 
hast blest me, and helped me and made me to 
conquer. O give me the understanding heart, 
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and Thine own provision for each need, and 
thereby I may help to bring God's gracious 
offer to man's urgent requirements and needs. 
Having been helped and healed myself, O Christ 
may I tell the tidings, and so pass on to other 
travelers the blessings which Thou dost have 
in store, for all who love and trust in Thee. 
In Jesus' name. Amen. 

TWENTY-SECOND DAY 

VISION 

I was among the captives and the heavens 
were opened and I saw visions of God. Ez. 
1: 1. 

And I was not disobedient unto the heavenly 
vision. Acts 26: 19. 

For young men shall see visions. Joel 2: 28. 

And he wished not that it was true, but thought 
he saw a vision. Acts 12: 9. 

And God spake unto Israel in a vision of 
the night. Gen. 46: 2. 

And I alone saw the vision, for the men that 
were with me saw it not. Dan. 10: 7. 

Meditation — For the higher vision, O Lord 
we pray. 

Prayer 

God give us vision! We are so shortsighted 
and so blind. We can hardly see beyond the 
sphere of our own little circle. Our selfishness 
has blurred our eyes, but the love of God dost 
clarify them. Thy love, O Lord, in our souls 
dost cause us to see over continents and across 
the seas. It causes us to pray for all men every- 
where, that they also may know the Lord, 
whom to know aright is life eternal. We wish 
others also to be saved and healed. O give 
Thy servants the Vision Glorious, of a race 
redeemed, and of a spirit purified among the 
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eousness and love shall be the rule in our lives 
— instead of greed and base ambition. Grant to 
us the heavenly visions that Thine apostle Paul 
experienced, wherein we may do our share to 
stimulate and lift the race toward God. In 
Jesus' name. Amen. 

TWENTY-THIRD DAY 

WORK 

A doer of work shall be blessed in his deed. 
Jas. 1: 25. 

I must work the works of Him that sent me 
while it is day. Jno. 9: 4. 

Be strong, saith the Lord, and work; lor I 
am with you. Hag. 2: 4. 

Go work today in my vineyard. Matt. 21 : 28. 

It may be that the Lord will work for us. 
I. Sam. 14: 6. 

My Father worketh hitherto and I work. 
Jno. 5: 17. 

It is God that worketh in you, to will and to 
do of His good pleasure. Phil. 2: 13. 

What shall we do that we might work the 
works of God? Jno. 6: 28. 

This is the work of God that ye believe on 
Him whom He hath sent. Jno. 6: 29. 

Meditation — The salvation of the race, and 
my own perfecting lies in active consecrated 
work. 

Prayer 

I thank Thee O Lord of life, for the won- 
derful blessing of work. Inspire in me the zeal, 
and the passion to be busy in Thy vineyard, 
harvesting souls for Thee. The work which 
Thou dost give me, may I do it with my might. 
The labor of love which my Master engaged in 
while He was on the earth, is to me a constant 
inspiration and strength. It stimulates and 
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be strong and active and helpful. May His 
work and labor of love, and His atoning and 
healing sacrifice, be to me as a shining example 
to spur me on to greater usefulness in Thy 
vineyard, for the night cometh when no man 
can work. Illumine my task for Jesus' sake. 
Amen. 

TWENTY-FOURTH DAY 

CHRIST (XT) 

Christ in you is the hope of glory. Col. 1 : 27. 

I can do all thing through Christ. Phil. 4: 13. 

Not I, but Christ liveth in me. Gal. 2: 20. 

Let this mind be in you which was also in 
Christ. Phil. 2:5. 

One is your master, even Christ. Matt. 23: 8. 

Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of 
God. Cor. 1: 24. 

If any man be in Christ he is a new creature. 
II. Cor. 15: 22. 

Meditation — The inner Christ in me this day, 
fully saves my body even as my soul. 

Prayer 

When I think of Thee, O Christ, in the day 
time, I am overcome. When I meditate upon 
Thee in the night watches, my heart fails me. 
Thou art so great, so true, so wonderful! And 
Thou canst make me like to Thee! Thou canst 
give me spiritual soundness like Thine own. 
Thou canst give me physical health the same as 
Thine. O help us to discern the Lord's body, 
My blood shed for remission, — of your soul's 
sin, My body broken for you — your body's heal- 
ing — that it may be fulfilled which was spoken 
by Esais the prophet, saying, "Himself took our 
infirmities and bare our sicknesses," or by 
David the Psalmist, "He forgiveth all thine 
iniquities. He healeth all thy diseases." O 



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Christ of Calvary, we appreciate and now ac- 
cept that great atonement. In Jesus' name. 
Amen. 

TWENTY-FIFTH DAY 
YIELDING 

Yielding pacifieth great offences. Eccl. 10: 14. 

Chastening yieldeth the peaceable fruit of 
righteousness. Heb. 12: 11. 

Yield yourselves to the Lord. II. Chron. 
30: 8. 

Submit yourselves therefore to God. James 
4: 7. 

I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mer- 
cies of God, that ye present your bodies a living 
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is 
your reasonable service. 

Meditation — I would yield to others in love, 
and in honor preferring one another. 

Prayer 

Almighty and most merciful Father, we 
would yield our bodies and our souls entirely 
to Thy keeping. And we would pray for the 
submissive spirit toward our fellow men, that 
with all true grace and tenderness we may be 
living witnesses for Thee. May we engage not 
in doubtful disputations, and bickerings of a sel- 
fish sort, but evermore possess that Christian 
spirit of humility, in honor preferring one an- 
other. We learn in Thy word that yielding 
pacifieth great offences, and we are taught also 
that a soft answer turneth away wrath. May 
we therefore have in us the same mind which 
was also in Christ Jesus, who came not to 
please Himself, but to give His life. Cultivate 
in Thy servants those true qualities and graces, 
which shall enable them to serve Thee accept- 
ably, and to represent Thee accurately to the 
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people. Give unto me this day a yielding dis- 
position that I may win many unto Thee. In 
Jesus' name. Amen. 

TWENTY-SIXTH DAY 
ZEAL 

The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform 
this. Isaiah 9: 7. 

It is good to be zealous affected in a good 
thing. Gal. 4: 18. 

The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. 
Ps. 69: 9. 

And he was clad with zeal, as a cloak. Isa- 
59: 17. 

Come and see my zeal for the Lord. II 
Kings 10: 16. 

He was zealous for his God. Numbers 25: 13. 

Meditation — The king's business requires 
haste. May Christian zeal characterize my 
God-given crusade. 

Prayer 

Cause our pulses to beat fast, our fingers to 
move quickly, and our feet to fly, O Lord, in 
the service of the King! Make us zealous of 
good works, and fill us with enthusiasm for Thy 
great cause. May the zeal of the prophets of 
old, and the fire of the early apostles, take hold 
upon us also today, so that we may run hither 
and thither, proclaiming and practising the glad 
tidings of Christ. May we go everywhere 
preaching the kingdom, and healing the sick 
through faith, as Thou hast constantly com- 
manded Thy followers. Give us that holy 
and passionate zeal which convinces the slow of 
heart; that enthusiasm of truth which sweeps 
all before it, and is irresistible. Take no rest 
and give us no rest, until we have done our ut- 
most for Thee, in preaching the Kingdom and 
healing the sick, in Thy name. In Jesus' sake. 
Amen. 



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TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY 

FORGIVENESS 

There is forgiveness with thee, O Lord. Ps. 
130: 4. 

In whom we have redemption through His 
blood, even forgiveness of sins. Col. 1 : 14. 

To the Lord our God belong mercies and 
forgiveness. Dan. 9: 9. 

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those 
who trespass against us. Luke 11: 4. 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just 
to forgive us our sins. I. Jno. 1 : 9. 

Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Luke 
6: 37. 

God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. 
Eph. 4: 32. 

Her sins which are many are forgiven, for 
she loved much. Luke 7: 47. 

Meditation — The Christly richness of forgive- 
ness is its own record. 

Prayer 

Merciful and gracious Father, who pardoneth 
all our iniquities if we in penitence confess our 
sins, we come now leaning on Thy promise. 
We have grievously sinned and fallen short of 
Thy glory. But we trust Thee to restore us 
wholly. God of the needy, who forgiveth all 
our iniquities, and healeth all our diseases, heal 
us now we pray. And give us also that sweet 
spirit of forgiveness which blots out every in- 
fringement and wrong, and remembers not any 
insult or injury. Show us the meaning of the 
principle "love your enemies." Teach us its 
inner and actual significance. Give us the kindly 
spirit which is the mark of full salvation and 
perfect healing. In Jesus' name. Amen. 



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TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY 

PRAYER 

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous 
man availeth much. James 5: 16. 

My house shall be called a house of prayer. 
Matt. 21: 13. 

Whatsoever ye ask in prayer believing, ye 
shall receive. Matt. 21: 22. 

The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous 
and his ears are open unto their prayers. I. 
Pet. 3: 12. 

And it came to pass in those days that He 
went out into a mountain to pray and continued 
all night in prayer to God. Luke 6: 12. 

Thou shalt make Thy prayer unto Him, and 
He shall hear Thee. Job. 22: 27. 

I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save 
me. Ps. 55: 16. 

Pray without ceasing. In everything give 
thanks. I. Thess. 5: 17. 

Evening and morning and at noon will I 
pray. Ps. 55: 17. 

Meditation — If we can pray aright, life's 
riddle for us is solved, because all things are 
ours. 

Prayer 

Lord teach us to pray — even as Thou didst 
teach our predecessors. Instill into us that 
continual spirit of intimate sweet communion 
with Thee, which submits every issue to Thy 
testing, for man should engage upon no great 
or important enterprise without first going to 
the Supreme Being in prayer. In this way we 
know we shall not go astray. And in this way 
we are guaranteed we shall receive all that for 
which our soul yearns with a deep and sincere 
yearning. We are thus linked with Thee, our 
all-wise, all-loving Friend, and Thou wilt give 
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then sanctified and true and justified. Thou 
hast said, Whatever ye shall ask in my name, 
I will do it. Teach us, O Christ how to truly 
ask in Thy name, and in Thy spirit, for all 
things of body, mind or estate, and we shall 
have them. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

TWENTY-NINTH DAY 

PATIENCE 

In patience possess ye your souls. Luke 
21: 19. 

The God of patience grant you to be like- 
minded. Rom. 15: 5. 

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought 
among you in all patience, in signs and wonders 
and mighty deeds. II. Cor. 12: 12. 

The Lord direct your hearts into the love of 
God and into the patient waiting for Christ. 
II. Thess. 3: 5. 

Let patience have her perfect work, that ye 
may be perfect and entire wanting nothing. 
James 1: 4. 

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he in- 
clined unto me and heard my cry. He brought 
me up out of the horrible pit out of the miry 
clay and set my feet upon a rock. Ps. 40: 1. 

Meditation — Above anything else I seek 
patience, because by it I can have everything 
else. 

Prayer 

God of marvelous patience, whose loving 
kindness is unending, and whose mercy en- 
dureth forever, give unto us a like mind. In 
calmness and self-control may we work at our 
appointed task yet never fretting or worrying 
over the delayed fulfillment. Let us in the 
morning sew the seed and in the evening with- 
hold not the hand and Let us not be weary in 
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if we faint not. For we know that patience 
does her perfect work, and they that wait on 
the Lord shall renew their strength. They Shall 
mount up on wings as eagles. They shall run 
and not be weary, they shall walk and not 
faint. They that seek the Lord shall not want 
any good thing. Wait on the Lord, be of good 
courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart. 
Wait I say on the Lord. For Jesus' sake. 
Amen. 

THIRTIETH DAY 

SPIRITUALITY 

To be spiritually minded is life, and peace. 
Rom. 8: 6. 

The things of God — are spiritually discerned. 
I. Cor. 2: 14. 

I long to see you that I may impart to you 
some spiritual gift. Rom. 1: 11. 

We do not cease to pray for you and to 
desire that ye might be filled with the know- 
ledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual 
understanding. Col. 1: 9. 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all 
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. 
Ephes. 1 : 3. 

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault ye 
which are spiritual restore such a one, in the 
spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou 
also be tempted. Gal. 6: 1. 

Meditation — God is a spirit, hence I would 
develop spiritually so as to understand Him. 
Prayer 

The life which I live O God is lived in the 
atmosphere's sunlight of Thy spirit. The spirit 
giveth life and love, and the spirit filled life is 
the only life of reality. It is the joyful life. 
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the author of life is Himself a spirit, and they 
that worship Him must worship Him in spirit 
and in truth. So we crave O God a deep and 
abiding spirituality. .We plead for the mind in 
us which was in Christ Jesus and we would pos- 
sess a like spiritual nature. We repudiate at 
the base materialism which would tempt us, 
and with Thee we rise up above the earthly and 
the low. We would drink deeply at the foun- 
tain of God and ask for the spiritual heart. In 
Jesus' name. Amen. 

THIRTY-FIRST DAY 

HAPPINESS 

Happy am I, for the daughters will call me 
blessed. Gen. 30: 13. 

Happy is every one that feareth the Lord. 
Ps. 128: 2. 

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. 
Prov. 16: 20. 

Happy is the people whose God is the Lord. 
Prov. 144: 15. 

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. Prov. 
3: 13. 

The fear of the Lord that is wisdom. Prov. 
21: 30. 

He that keepeth the law happy is he. Prov. 
29: 18. 

If ye know these things happy are ye, if ye 
do them. Jno. 13: 17. 

Meditation — Happiness is the supreme goal. 
It is found in God. It is found only in God. 

Prayer 

Life with Thee, O Lord and Master, is the 
highest happiness. Help me to live consciously 
in Thee. Let not the things of this world over- 
whelm me or becloud my judgment. Always 
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are temporal, but the things which are unseen 
are eternal. Help me not to mistake gold for 
God, nor to sacrifice the reality of life for the 
shining bauble. Happiness is indeed our highest 
goal, but wilt thou O Lord of wisdom,, teach 
us the right way to obtain happiness. Show us 
that it is gained through Holy living, and re- 
tained through giving it to others. The joy of 
life is within our grasp, if we will but take hold 
upon it, bx basing our lives on Thee. We find 
happiness and healing today and every day in 
walking by Thy side, and in living with Thee, 
our closest friend. So be it, in Jesus' name. 
Amen. 



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SUNDRY PRAYERS 

I. 
A General Prayer 
Almighty God, inasmuch as Thou hast made 
us in Thine own image and likeness, and hast 
created us but little lower than the angels, 
crowning, us with glory and honor, we rejoice 
this day and praise Thy name in humble grati- 
tude. The spirit itself beareth witness with our 
spirit that we are children of God, and joint 
heirs with Jesus Christ. We are therefore co- 
workers together with God. We are creators 
with the Father. We make for ourselves the 
atmosphere in which we live, — we work out our 
own salvation, God working with us. We be- 
seech Thee, O Father, to give us great wisdom 
and great courage and vision, that we may 
create a building and a city of God, one of 
beauty and of strength, which is not made 
with hands, but a city which hath foundations, 
Eternal in the heavens. We dwell in heavenly 
places now, did we but know it; we mount up 
on wings as eagles. Like the old apostle, the 
life which we now live, we live by faith in Jesus 
Christ. He is our* friend, our companion, our 
strength, in whom we do trust. Walk with us 
as we walk today, talk with us as we talk today. 
Work with us, plan with us, play with us, serve 
with us, and we will be Thy people, redeemed, 
reclaimed, recovered, and Thou shalt be our 
God. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

II. 
Prayer for the Chief Executive 

God of nations and of men, King of Kings, 
and Lord of Lords, Thy loving kindness and 
Thy tender mercies are with us in the day time, 



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and in the night watches, and Thy truth en- 
dureth unto all generations. Grant, we beseech 
Thee, to bless and cherish this land in which 
we live, and which we love. Guide especially 
the footsteps of our chief executive, the Presi- 
dent of this Republic, that he may not falter, 
err, nor stumble, but that with firm and steady 
tread, assisted by his co-laborers; and walking 
hand in hand with Thee, he shall lead this 
great people into paths of peace and righteous- 
ness and healing, and that we, as humble, true 
and loyal subjects, shall do those things which 
are lawful, just and right, and through his 
leadership shall help this land to become rightly 
known as a nation and a people whose God is 
the Lord. Hover over him with thy blessing, 
healing presence. Keep him from all harm and 
injury; and grant that he may guide Thy chil- 
dren as Thou wouldst have them go, through 
the precious merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

III. 

Prayer for the Sick and Afflicted 

Compassionate Christ! who art not respector 
of persons, but lover of all men, touched with 
the feeling of our infirmities, O fill Thou up 
our incompleteness. Thou who wast wounded 
for our transgressions, and bruised for our ini- 
quities; who hast taken our infirmities and 
borne our sicknesses in Thine own body on the 
tree, receive now our full acceptance of Thine 
atoning grace, and release us from the curse 
of sin and sickness. Open Thou our eyes that 
we may see Thy purpose and read Thy word 
aright. Give us confidence and courage that we 
may appropriate and utilize Thy wondrous 
plan, as Thou hast so plainly shown it in Thy 
word. Give us deep compassion and tender 



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love for all Thy suffering ones, and may we 
ever bring to them the consolation of Jesus 
Christ for their weary souls, not only, but for 
their uneasy painful bodies. Thy word is full 
of promises of healing. Thy life was full of 
loving deeds of healing. Thy commands re- 
peatedly urge healing for Thy followers, 
through faith. O Christ, give us that faith and 
health this day, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

IV. 
Prayer For Those in Divine Presence 
We are admonished, O Christ of God, in this 
Thy Holy Book, that we should forsake not the 
assembling of ourselves together, and further, 
that we should speak oft with one another and 
with Thee in spiritual and loving fellowship. 
So we come O Lord just now. We pray for 
those who are in divine presence, here assem- 
bled. They are children and heirs of God, — 
joint heirs with Jesus Christ. Lay Thy loving 
hand upon us. Cause us to know and feel the 
communion of Thy presence. Move our souls 
to spiritual ecstasy and touch our bodies with 
Thy healing love, — just now. Purge out the 
dross, burn out the sin. Renovate this house 
of our earthly tabernacle, of all worldly things, 
and come Thou with triumphant entry in; pos- 
sess and dwell forevermore. Sanctify and con- 
secrate this place and gathering, with Thy Holy 
vSpirit, and have us in Thine eternal keeping, 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

V. 
Prayer For Full-Gospel Crusaders 

Strong Deliverer, Thy true followers and dis- 
ciples, prophets and apostles in every age, have 
sacrificd and suffered and borne the rod for 
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social ostracism and of physical torment and 
persecution. They have undergone the chasten- 
ing and spurning and derision of a heartless 
world. But because they have insisted still on 
Thy commandments in the face of human 
apathy or opposition, Thou hast never left them 
nor forsaken them, but rather hast Thou done 
them eternal honor, because they glorified in 
their tribulations. When they were weak, then 
they were strong, in Thee. Thy have been smit- 
ten and scourged and spit upon, and at times 
have been even cast out of the synagogue, be- 
cause they preached Thy word — too zealously! 
But none of these things moved them. Cru- 
saders indeed were they! O raise up followers 
today with that same undaunted spirit, that de- 
termination to preach Thine entire gospel, and 
to preach it zealously and earnestly no matter 
what the cost! In face of antogonism in high 
places, in spite of coldness and indifference 
even in the sanctuary, may these Thy present- 
day crusaders have the courage and the zeal to 
heed Thy voice in spite of what men may do 
unto them, and great is their reward! In 
Jesus' Precious Name. Amen. 

VI. 

Prayer For the Missionary Cause 
O most mighty and merciful Father, we in- 
voke Thy special blessing upon the missionary 
cause this day. To those whom Thou hast 
called and truly authorized to go forth in Thy 
name to preach the kingdom and heal the sick, 
wilt Thou give a special anointing of the Holy 
Ghost. Wilt Thou strengthen and prosper them. 
Whether they labor in home or foreign fields, 
wilt Thou bless them with Thine own signs fol- 
lowing, and with good results. Provide, O 
God, the necessary means for this great task. 



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Open Thou the hearts and purses of Thy true 
and loyal ones, that they may realize that being 
rich toward God is better than laying up treas- 
ure on earth. That it verily is more blessed to 
give than to receive, and that the Lord loveth 
a cheerful giver. Thy commissionaires now 
give their lives and all, because they love Thy 
cause. O Christ of God, enrich and stimulate 
this vital work and call out Thine own anointed 
ones to go and take the whole gospel to the 
whole world. God bless the Healing Mission- 
ary. In Jesus' name. Amen. 

VII. 
Prayer For Regeneration of the Church 

O Founder of the Living Church, we confess 
our grievous fault and great shortcoming in 
that we Thy modern church have sometimes 
quenched Thy spirit and caused it to depart 
from us. O Christ of God, forgive our negli- 
gence. Forget this great omission we have 
made, wherein we have preached the kingdom 
only, but have not healed the sick, as Thou 
always didst command. Pardon our indiffer- 
ence and indolence, and grant unto us that con- 
trite determination that hereafter as far as in 
us lies, we will carry out Thy full commands, 
and obeying Thee, will bless and edify Thy 
suffering children. Give Thy Church the great 
compassion Thou didst have. Imbue us with 
that tender mercy and that compelling love. 
Teach us that we are now our brother's keeper 
and that we who are strong ought to bear the 
infirmities of the weak, and not please our- 
selves. Re-awaken Thy church O God, to the 
wondrous boon and blessing which is just 
outside her door, which she so tragically has 
missed, but now can grasp for Jesus' sake. 
Amen. 



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VIII. 

Prayer For the Healing Passion 

Give unto us, O Lord, Give unto us, even as 
in the old time, Thy gracious strength and Thy 
healing power. Give unto us a veritable pas- 
sion That Thy children may be restored in body 
and soul. As Thou didst summon Thy dis- 
ciples; didst give them the power and also the 
authority, to preach the gospel of the kingdom, 
to cleanse and heal the sick and every manner 
of disease: and as Thou didst call the afflicted 
unto Thee, truly vouchsafing unto them all Thy 
benefits, likewise, O Lord, through the merits 
of Thy holy Son wilt Thou today open the 
fountains of Thy mercy and Thy love, and let 
Thy blessings flow upon us, even more fully 
than we are able to ask or think. We pray for 
the Healing Passion. We pray that Thou wilt 
urge us on, we pray Thou wilt give Thy mes- 
sengers no rest until they carry out Thy will 
in full, and become obedient to Thy great Com- 
mission, to preach the kingdom, — heal the sick. 
O support and bless the weak and needy now, 
and hold them in the hollow of Thy loving 
hand, for Jesus' sake. Amen. 

IX, 

Nunc Dimittis. Luke 2: 29-32 

Lord nqw lettest Thou Thy servant depart in 
peace according to Thy Word. 

30 For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation. 

31 Which Thou hast prepared before the face 
of all people. 

32 A light to lighten the gentiles and the 
glory of Thy people Israel. 

Benediction. II. Cor. 13: 14. 



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The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the 
love of God, and the communion of the Holy- 
Ghost, be with you all. Amen. 

X. 
Prayer For Confession and Absolution 

Merciful Christ our Saviour, who came to 
earth to call the sinner to repentance, and who 
delighteth not in the death of the wicked; but 
who died for us while we were yet sinners, — 
we acknowledge our transgressions, and our 
sin is ever before us. We know that if we do 
repent and confess our sins, Thou art faithful 
and just to forgive us even now our sins, and to 
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. More- 
over Thou hast authorized Thy ministers to 
assure forgiveness on this earth to those who 
are truly sorry and confess repentance of all 
their sins and shortcomings. Create in me a 
clean heart O God, and renew a right spirit 
within me. Thou dost grant Remission and 
Absolution now to Thine erring and wayward 
child who stands convicted and repentant in 
Thy presence. Grant unto us, we beseech 
Thee, O God, that true and deep spirit of re- 
pentance and righteous determination that our 
lives may be well pleasing in Thy sight, and be 
a blessing to ourselves and others in this day, 
and that the remainder of our years on earth 
may be spent in righteous. Godly living, and 
that finally we may enter into the joy of the 
Lord, there to dwell with God the Father, and 
the Son, and the Holy Spirit, world without 
end. Amen and Amen. 



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The Master Key of Bible Healing 

READ HERE 

THE SECRET OF ALL HEALING 




HAPPINEQS PROSPERITY 



I A T R A T L 



EXPLANATION 



I am the Lord thy Healer. Old Test. Ex. 15: 26. 
If ye shall ask anything in my name I will do it. 

New Test. John 14: 12. 



CONSTANT MOTTO 
Every day will I bless thee; every hour now im- 
prove. I can truly do all things through my master's 
strengthening love. Ps. 14: 2. Phil. 4: 13. 

(Repeat slowly, over, and over, and over.) 



Positive Promises of God 

I will restore health unto thee, and heal thee of 
all thy wounds, saith the Lord. Jer. 30: 17. 

I will forgive their sin and will heal. II. Chron. 
7: 14. 

My words are life unto those that find them and 
health to all their flesh. Prov. 4: 22. 

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. Prov. 
16: 20. 

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do 
them. Jno. 13: 17. 

Happy is everyone that feareth the Lord. Ps. 
128: 1. 

If they obey and serve him. they shall spend their 
days in prosperity. Job. 36: 11. 

The Lord hath pleasure in the prosperity of his 
servants. Ps. 35: 27. 

Ask and ye shall receive. Jno. 16: 24. 



Denial of the Opposite 

I will take away sickness from the midst of thee. 
Ex. 23: 25. 

Himself bare our sicknesses. Matt. 8: 17. 

The Lord will take away from thee all sickness. 
Deut. 7: 15. 

Sorrow and morning shall flee away. Is. 51: 11. 

There shall be no more death, neither sorrow. 
Rev. 21: 4. 

Your sorrow shall be turned to joy. Jno. 16: 20.. 



The Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out 
of all adversity. II. Sam. 4: 9. 

God himself saved you out of all adversities. I. 
Sam. 10: 19. 

He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the 
miry clay and set my feet upon a rock. Ps. 40: 2. 



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SOLUTION OF THE MASTER KEY 



"THE root philosophy of our religion is Judaism. The 
Law of Moses given from God is its basic principle. 
Judaism is most fundamentally, truly and fully represented 
by the Temple. In the Master Key of Bible Healing the 
first figure is a temple. The letter "L" at the apex rep- 
resents Law. The law was given by Moses, and obedience 
to it is life. The Hebrew word Jehovah-Jireh, is Juda- 
ism's symbol for "The Lord will provide." The figure 
at the centre of the temple is the Bible, and at the centre 
of the Bible the letter E is for Emmanuel — God with us. 
At the bottom of the Jewish temple we have the initial 
letters of the wondrous truth, Ye — are — the — temple — of — 
the — Living God. II. Cor. 6: 16. 

The second figure is a pyramid, with its three sides rep- 
resenting Christianity, with its trinity conception. The 
"G" at the apex is for "Gospel." On the Law and the 
Gospel our whole system is bused. But God is the Giver 
of the Gospel, so this "G" also represents God, or Grace. 
"For the Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth 
came by Jesus Christ." J no. i: 17. Health, happiness 
and prosperity form the base of the Christian pyramid. 
They are essential and basic requirements to the "abun- 
dant life" for which Jesus came. But since God positively 
promises these blessings to true devotees {see opposite 
page) all of these avenues lead up to God and He in turn 
pours down His blessings through these channels. 

The letters under the pyramid are the initial letters of 
the foundation of all our highest hope, namely, "I am 
the resurrection and the life." J no. 11:25. He that be- 
lieveth in me shall live. In other words, "If the spirit 
of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, 
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken 
your mortal bodies." Rom. 8: 11. Not immortal bodies, 
but the present physical body which you now have. 

This is the Master Key to the Bible Healing Secret of 
Success and Efficacy. If it is fully understood and used, 
it will open God's storehouse, and place the powers of the 
universe at your disposal. 



HEALING EPIGRAMS 

HEALING EPIGRAMS. 



In Bible Healing, sin and sickness flee away. 

God's hidden gifts are all revealed in this 
Gospel. 

Understand Bible Healing, and Life's whole 
riddle is solved. 

Bible Healing is the Key unlocking the mystery 
of Calvary. 

In Bible Healing we appropriate the Treasure 
House of eternal love. 

The prize of the ages is ours, if we have and 
live this Gospel. 

The Eternal gift of Health and Redemption 
is found in Bible Healing. 

In Bible Healing, God has given us full health, 
happiness and prosperity. 

Body, mind and soul are reclaimed through 
Bible Healing. 

This Bible truth eliminates disease and sin. 

Sickness and guilt will melt like snow in 
Blessed Bible Healing. 

Bible Healing is Utopia, actually realized. 



The vitalizing energy of God my strength, now 
permeates my Being and keeps me in perfect 
health. 

The Peace of God which passeth all under- 
standing keeps my heart and mind in the love of 
God and of perfect harmony. 

The all-embracing affluence of God my Father, 
is now at my disposal and I have wealth untold 
through His riches. 



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SELF-MASTERY 

The Basis of All Mastery 

A thought for each day of the week, which 
if repeated several times, and contemplated 
carefully, will absolutely calm the nerves, soothe 
the soul, bring sleep at night; and strengthen 
and equip the spirit, will, -and body in the day 
time, for every task of life. 

Sunday. Being born of God we are lifted up 
out of the fret of this world, and are set down 
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 

Monday. I work out my own salvation, for 
God has placed in my breast the stars of my 
fate. 

Tuesday. As one thinks in his heart so is 
he, for out of it are all the issues of life. 

Wednesday. May the words of my mouth 
and the meditations of my heart be truly 
worthy, now. 

Thursday. I can do all things desirable, 
without exception, in Christ, — nothing out of 
Him. 

Friday. The Creator, God my Father is an 
infinite Power-house, and all I need to do is to 
keep up the connection to be guaranteed All- 
power. 

Saturday. This is the day to joyfully pre- 
pare myself for God's Holy Sabbath. So is 
every day, because all are sacred to Him. 



SECTION IV. 

The Psalter 



THE PSALTER 



THE PSALTER OR BOOK OF PSALMS 
OF DAVID 

(7o he Read Through Each Month) 

First Day of the Month — Prayer for Morning 

PSALM 1. 
"DLESSED is the man that walketh not in the 
*-" counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the 
way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the 
scornful. 

2 But his delight is in the Law of the Lord; 
and in his law doth he mediate day and night. 

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the 
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit 
in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; 
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the 
chaff which the wind driveth away. 

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in 
the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation 
of the righteous. 

6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the 
righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall 
perish. 

PSALM 2. 

WHY do the heathen rage, and the people 
imagine a vain thing? 

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and 
the rulers take counsel together, against the 
Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, 

3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast 
away their cords from us. 

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: 
the Lord shall have them in derision. 

5 Then shall he speak unto them in his 
wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 

- 6 Yet have I set my King upon my holy 
hill of Zion. 



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7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath 
said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have 
T begotten thee. 

8 Ask of me,#md I shall give thee the heathen 
for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts 
of the earth for thy possession. 

9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; 
thou shalt dash them into pieces like a potter's 
vessel. 

10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be 
instructed, ye judges of the earth. 

11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice 
with trembling. 

12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye 
perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled 
but a little. Blessed are all they that put 
their trust in him. 

PSALM 3. 

J ORD, how are they increased that trouble 
*-4 me! many are they that rise up against me. 

2 Many there be which say of my soul, 
There is no help for him in God. Selah. 

3 But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my 
glory, and the lifter up of mine head. 

4 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and 
he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 

5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for 
the Lord sustained me. 

6 1 will not be afraid of ten thousands of 
people, that have set themselves against me 
round about. 

7 Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for 
thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the 
cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the 
ungodly. 

8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy 
blessing is upon thy people. Selah. 



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PSALM 4. 
T-JEAR me when I call, O God of my right- 
■*■-'■ eousncss: thou hast enlarged me when I 
was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear 
my prayer. 

2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn 
my glory into shame? how long will ye love 
vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. 

3 But know that the Lord hath set apart 
him that is godly for himself: the Lord will 
hear when I call unto him. 

4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with 
your own heart upon your bed, and be still. 
Selah. 

5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and 
put your trust in the Lord. 

6 There be many that say, Who will shew 
us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of 
thy countenance upon us. 

7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more 
than in the time that their corn and their wine 
increased. 

8 I will both lay me down in peace, and 
sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in 
safety. 

PSALM 5. 

GTVE ear to my words, O Lord; consider 
my meditation. 

2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my 
King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. 

3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, 
O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer 
unto thee, and will look up. 

4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure 
in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with 
thee. 

5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: 
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6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leas- 
ing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceit- 
ful man. 

7 But as for me, I will come into thy house 
in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear 
will I worship toward thy holy temple. 

8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness 
because of mine enemies; make thy way 
straight before my face. 

9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; 
their inward part is very wickedness; their 
throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with 
their tongue. 

10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall 
by their own counsels; cast them out in the 
multitude of their transgressions; for they 
have rebelled against thee. 

11 But let all those that put their trust in 
thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, be- 
cause thou defendest them: let them also that 
love thy name be joyful in thee. 

12 For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; 
with favour wilt thou compass him as with a 
shield. 



First Day of the Month — Prayer for Evening 

PSALM 6. 
[J Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, nei- 
^-' ther chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 

2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am 
weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are 
vexed. 

3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O 
Lord, how long? 

4 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save 
me for thy mercies' sake. 

5 For in death there is no remembrance of 
thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? 



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6 T am weary with my groaning; all the 
night make I my bed to swim; I water my 
couch with my tears. 

7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; 
it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. 

8 Depart from me, all ye workers of in- 
iquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of 
my weeping. 

9 The Lord hath heard my supplication; the 
Lord will receive my prayer. 

10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and 
sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed 
suddenly. 

PSALM 7. 

(j Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: 
^^ save me from all them that persecute me. 
and deliver me: 

2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending 
it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 

3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if 
there be iniquity in my hands; 

4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was 
at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him 
that without cause is mine enemy;) 

5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and 
take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon 
the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. 
Selah. 

6 Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thy- 
self because of the rage of mine enemies: and 
awake for me to the judgment that thou hast 
commanded. 

7 So shall the congregation of the people 
compass thee about: for their sakes therefore 
return thou on high. 

8 The Lord shall judge the people: judge 
me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, 
and according to mine integrity that is in me. 



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9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come 
to an end; but establish the just: for the 
righteous God tr'ieth the hearts and reins. 

10 My defence is of God, which saveth the 
upright in heart. 

11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is 
angry with the wicked every day. 

12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; 
lie hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 

13 He hath also prepared for him the in- 
struments of death; he ordaineth his arrows 
against the persecutors. 

14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and 
hath conceived mischief, and brought forth 
falsehood. 

15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen 
into the ditch which he made. 

16 His mischief shall return upon his own 
head and his violent dealing shall come down 
upon his own pate. 

17 I will praise the Lord according to his 
righteousness: and will sing praise to the name 
of the Lord most high. 

PSALM 8. 

/) Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name 
^-^ in all the earth! who hast set thy glory 
above the heavens. 

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings 
hast thou ordained strength because of thine 
enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy 
and the avenger. 

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work 
of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which 
thou hast ordained; 

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of 
him; and the son of man, that thou visitesl 
him? 



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5 For thou hast made him a little lower 
than the angels, and hast crowned him with 
glory and honour. 

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over 
the work of thy hands; thou hast put all 
things under his feet: 

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts 
of the field; 

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the 
sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths 
of the seas. 

9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy 
name in all the earth! 

Second Day. Morning. 
PSALM 9. 

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole 
heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous 
works. 

2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will 
sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High. 

3 When mine enemies are turned back, they 
shall fall and perish at thy presence. 

4 For thou hast maintained my right and my 
cause; thou satest in the throne judging right 

5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast 
destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their 
name for ever and ever. 

6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a 
perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; 
their memorial is perished with them. 

7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he 
hath prepared his throne for judgment. 

8 And he shall judge the world in righteous- 
ness, he shall minister judgment to the people 
in uprightness. 

9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the 
oppressed, a refuge in times ot trouble. 



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10 And they that know thy name will put 
their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not 
forsaken them that seek thee. 

11 Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth 
in Zion: declare among the people his doings. 

12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he 
remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry 
of the humble. 

13 Have" mercy upon me, O Lord; consider 
my trouble which I suffer of them that hate 
me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of 
death: 

14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in 
the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will re- 
joice in thy salvation. 

15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit 
that they made: in the net which they hid is 
their own foot taken. 

16 The Lord is known by the judgment which 
he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work 
of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and 
all the nations that forget God. 

18 For the needy shall not always be for- 
gotten: the expectation of the poor shall not 
perish for ever. 

19 Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let 
the heathen be judged in thy sight. 

20 Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations 
may know themselves to be but men. Selah. 

PSALM 10 

\fcTHY standest thou afar off, O Lord? why 
» * hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 

2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the 
poor: let them be taken in the devices that 
they have imagined. 

3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's 



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desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the 
Lord abhorreth. 

4 The wicked, through the pride of his coun- 
tenance, will not seek after God: God is not 
in all his thoughts. 

5 His ways are always grievous; thy judg- 
ments are far above out of his sight: as for 
all his enemies, he puffeth at them. 

6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be 
moved: for I shall never be in adversity. 

7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit 
and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and 
vanity. 

8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the 
villages: in the secret places doth he murder 
the innocent: his eyes are privily set against 
(he poor. 

9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his 
den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth 
catch the poor, when he draweth him into his 
net. 

10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that 
the poor may fall by his strong ones. 

11 He hath said in his heart, God hath for- 
gotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. 

12 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: 
forget not the humble. 

13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? 
he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not re- 
quire it. 

14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest 
mischief and spite, to require it with thy hand: 
the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou 
art the helper of the fatherless. 

15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and 
the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou 
find none. 

16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: the 
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17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the 
humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou 
wilt cause thine ear to hear: 

18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, 
that the man of the earth may no more oppress. 

PSALM 11 

TN ihe Lord put I my trust: how say ye to 
■*■ my soul. Flee as a bird to your mountain? 

2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they 
make ready their arrow upon the string, that 
they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 

3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can 
the righteous do? 

4 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's 
throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eye- 
lids try, the children of men. 

5 The Lord trieth the righteous: but the 
wicked and him that loveth violence his soul 
hateth. 

6 Upon the wicked he shall ram snares, fire 
and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this 
shall be the portion of their cup. ._ 

7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteous- 
ness; his countenance doth behold the upright. 



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Second Day. Evening. 

PSALM 12 

[ELP, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for 
the faithful fail from among the children 
of men. . 

2 They speak vanity every one with his 
neighbour: with flattering lips and with a 
double heart do they speak. 

3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, 
and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 



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4 Who have said, With our tongue will we 
prevail; our lips are our own: who is Lord over 
us? 

5 For the oppression of the poor, for the 
sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith 
the Lord; I will set him in safety from him 
that puffeth at him. 

6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as 
silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven 
times. 

7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt 
preserve them from this generation for ever. 

8 The wicked walk on every side, when the 
vilest men are exalted. 

PSALM 13 

"LTOW long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for 
■*■•*■ ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face 
from me? 

2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, 
having sorrow in my heart daily? how long 
shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 

3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: 
lighten mine eyes, lest 1 sleep the sleep of 
death; 

4 Lest mine enemy say, T have prevailed 
against him; and those that trouble me rejoice 
when I am moved. 

5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart 
shall rejoice in thy salvation. 

6 I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath 
dealt bountifully with me. 

PSALM 14 

THE fool said in his heart, There is no God. 
They are corrupt, they have done abom- 
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2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon 
the children of men, to see if there were any 
that did understand, and seek God. 

3 They are all gone aside, they are all to- 
gether become filthy: there is none that doeth 
good, no, not one. 

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowl- 
edge? who eat up my people as they eat 
bread, and call not upon the Lord. 

5 There were they in great fear: for God is 
in the generation of the righteous. 

6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, 
because the Lord is his refuge. 

7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come 
out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the 
captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, 
and Israel shall be glad. 

Third Day. Morning. 
PSALM 15 

T ORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? 
-L' who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 

2 He that walketli uprightly, and worketh 
righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his 
heart. 

3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, 
nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up 
a reproach against his neighbour. 

4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; 
but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. 
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth 
not. 

5 He that putteth not out his money to 
usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. 
He that doeth these things shall never be 
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PSALM 16 

PRESERVE me, O God: for in thee do I 
■*■ put my trust. 

2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, 
Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not 
to thee; 

3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and 
to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 

4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that 
hasten after another god: their drink offerings 
of blood will I not offer, nor take up their 
names into my lips. 

5 The Lord is the portion of mine inherit- 
ance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. 

6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant 
places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 

7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me 
counsel: my reins also instruct me in the 
night seasons. 

8 I have set the Lord always before me: 
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be 
moved. 

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory 
rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 

10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; 
neither wilt thou suffer .thine Holy One to see 
corruption. 

11 Thou will shew me the path of life: in 
thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right 
hand there are pleasures for evermore. 



PSALM 17 

XT EAR the right, O Lord, attend unto my 
■*■-*■ cry; give ear unto my prayer, that goeth 
not out of feigned lips. 

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy 
presence; let thine eyes behold the things that 
are equal. 



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3 Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast 
visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, 
and shalt find nothing: I am purposed that my 
mouth shall not transgress. 

4 Concerning the works of men, by the word 
of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of 
the destroyer. 

5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my 
footsteps slip not. 

6 I have called unto thee, for thou wilt hear 
me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear 
my speech. 

7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O 
thou that savest by thy right hand them which 
put their trust in thee from those that rise up 
against them. 

8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me 
under the shadow of thy wings, 

9 From the wicked that oppress me, from 
my deadly enemies, who compass me about. 

10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with 
their mouth they speak proudly. 

11 They have now compassed us in our 
steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to 
the earth; 

12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, 
and as it were a young lion lurking in secret 
places. 

13 Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him 
down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which 
is thy sword: 

14 From men which are thy hand, O Lord, 
from men oft the world, which have their 
portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest 
with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, 
and leave the rest of their substance to their 
babes. 

15 As for me, I will behold thy face in 
righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I 
awake, with thy likeness. 



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Third Day. Evening. 

PSALM 18 

T will love thee, O Lord, my strength. 
-*■ 2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, 
and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in 
whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn 
of my salvation, and my high tower. 

3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy 
to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine 
enemies. 

4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and 
the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 

5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: 
the snares of death prevented me. 

6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and 
cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of 
his temple, and my cry came before him, even 
into his ears. 

7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the 
foundations also of the hills moved and were 
shaken, because he was wroth. 

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, 
and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were 
kindled by it. 

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came 
down: and darkness was under his feet. 

10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: 
yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 
*.vll He made darkness his secret place; his 
pavilion round about him were dark waters and 
thick clouds of skies. 

12 At the brightness that was before him 
his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals 
of fire. 

13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, 
and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones 
and coals, of fire. 

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them; and he shot out his lightnings, and 
discomfited them. 

15 Then the channels of waters were seen, 
and the foundations of the world were dis- 
covered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast 
of the breath of thy nostrils. 

16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew 
me out of many waters. 

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, 
and from them which hated me: for they were 
too strong for me. 

18 They prevented me in the day of my 
calamity: but the Lord was my stay. 

19 He brought me forth also into a large 
place; he delivered me, because he delighted 
in me. 

20 The Lord rewarded me according to my 
righteousness; according to the cleanness of my 
hands hath he recompensed me. 

21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, 
and have not wickedly departed from my God. 

22 For all his judgments were before me, 
and I did not put away his statutes from me. 

23 I was also upright before him, and I kept 
myself from mine iniquity. 

24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me 
according to my righteousness, according to 
the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 

25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself 
merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew 
thyself upright; 

26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself 
pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew 
thyself froward. 

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; 
but wilt bring down high looks. 

28 For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord 
my God will enlighten my darkness. 



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29 For by thee I have run through a troop; 
and by my God have I leaped over a wall. 

30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word 
of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all 
those that trust in him. 

31 For who is God save the Lord? or who 
is a rock save our God? 

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, 
and maketh my way perfect. 

33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and 
setteth me upon my high places. 

34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a 
bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy 
salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me 
up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. 

36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, 
that my feet did not slip. 

37 I have pursued mine enemies, and over- 
taken them: neither did I turn again till they 
were consumed. 

38 I have wounded them that they were not 
able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. 

39 For thou hast girded me with strength 
unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me 
those that rose up against me. 

40 Thou hast also given me the necks of 
mine enemies; that I might destroy them that 
hate me. 

41 They cried, but there was none to save 
them: even unto the Lord, but he answered 
them not. 

42 Then did I beat them small as the dust 
before the wind: I did cast them out as the 
dirt in the streets. 

43 Thou, hast delivered me from the stri- 
vings of the people; and thou hast made me 
the head of the heathen: a people whom I have 
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44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall 
obey me: the strangers shall submit them- 
selves unto me. 

45 The strangers shall fade away, and be 
afraid out of their close places. 

46 The Lord liveth; and blessed be my Rock; 
and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 

47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth 
the people under me. 

48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: 
yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise 
up against me: thou hast delivered me from 
the violent man. 

49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, 
O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises 
unto thy name. 

50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; 
and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, 
and to his seed for evermore. 

Fourth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 19 

T^HE heavens declare the glory of God; and 
the firmament sheweth his handywork. 

2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night 
unto night sheweth knowledge. 

3 There is no speech nor language, where 
their voice is not heard. 

4 Their line is gone out through all the 
earth, and their words to the end of the world. 
In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. 

5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of 
his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man 
to run a race. 

6 His going forth is from the end of the 
heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and 
there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 

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the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, 
making wise the simple. 
« 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, re- 
joicing the heart: the commandment of the 
Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. 

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring 
for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true 
and righteous altogether. 

10 More to be desired are they than gold, 
yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than 
honey and the honeycomb. 

11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: 
and in keeping of them there is great reward. 

12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse 
thou me from secret faults. 

13 Keep back thy servant also from pre- 
sumptuous sins; let them not have dominion 
over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall 
be innocent from the great transgression. 

. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the 
meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy 
sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. 

PSALM 20 

^"PHE Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; 
■*- the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 

2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and 
strengthen thee out of Zion; 

3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy 
burnt sacrifice; Selah. 

4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, 
and fulfil all thy counsel. 

5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the 
name of our God we will set up our banners: 
the Lord fulfill all thy petitions. 

6 Now know I that the Lord saveth his 
anointed; he will hear him from his holy 
heaven with the saving strength of his right 
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7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: 
but we will remember the name of the Lord 
our God. 

8 They are brought down and fallen: but we 
are risen, and stand upright. 

9 Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we 
call. 

PSALM 21 

/ T^HE king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; 
-*- and in thy salvation how greatly shall he 
rejoice! 

2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, 
and hast not withholden the request of his lips. 
Selah. 

3 For thou preventest him with the blessings 
of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold 
on his head. 

4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it 
him, even length of days for ever and ever. 

5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour 
and majesty hast thou laid upon him. 

6 For thou hast made him most blessed for 
ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with 
thy countenance. 

7 For the king trusteth in the Lord, and 
through the mercy of the Most High he shall 
not be moved. 

8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: 
thy right hand shall find out those that hate 
thee. 

9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in 
the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow 
them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour 
them. 

10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the 
earth, and their seed from among the children 
of men. 

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imagined a mischievous device, which they are 
not able to perform. 

12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn 
their back, when thou shalt make ready thine 
arrows upon thy strings against the face of 
them. 

13 Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own 
strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. 



Fourth Day. Evening. 
PSALM 22 

MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken 
me? why art thou so far from helping me, 
and from the words of my roaring? 

2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou 
hearest not; and in the night season, and am 
not silent. 

3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest 
the praises of Israel. 

4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, 
and thou didst deliver them. 

5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: 
they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 

6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach 
of men, and despised of the people. 

7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: 
they shoot out the lip, the shake the head, 
saying, 

8 He trusted on the Lord that he would 
deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he 
delighted in him. 

9 But thou art he that took me out of the 
womb: thou didst make me hope when I was 
upon my mother's breasts. 

10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: 
thou art my God from my mother's belly. 

11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; 
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12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong 
bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 

13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, 
as a ravening and a roaring lion. 

14 T am poured out like water, and all my 
bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; 
it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; 
and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and tho 
hast brought me into the dust of death. 

16 For dogs have compassed me: the assem- 
bly of the wicked have inclosed me: they 
pierced my hands and my feet. 

17 1 may tell all my bones: the}' look and 
stare upon me. 

18 They part my garments among them, and 
cast lots upon my vesture. 

19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: 
O my strength, haste thee to help me. 

20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my 
darling from the power of the dog. 

21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou 
hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. 

22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: 
in the midst of the congregation will I praise 
thee. 

23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye 
the seed of Jacob, glorify him: and fear him 
all ye the seed of Israel. 

24 For he hath not despised or abhorred 
the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he 
hid his face from him; but when he cried unto 
him, he heard. 

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great 
congregation: I will pay my vows before them 
that fear him. 

26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they 
shall praise the Ldrd that seek him: your heart 
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27 All the ends of the world shall remember 
and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds 
of the nations shall worship before thee. 

28 For the Kingdom is the Lord's: and he 
is the governor among the nations. 

29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat 
and worship: all they that go down to the dust 
shall bow before him: and none can keep alive 
his own soul. 

30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be ac- 
counted to the Lord for a generation. 

31 They shall come, and shall declare his 
righteousness unto a people that shall be born, 
that he hath done this. 

PSALM 23 

T^HE Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 
•*• 2 He maketh me lie down in green pas- 
tures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 

3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in 
the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of 
the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for 
thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they 
comfort me. 

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the 
presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my 
head with oil; my cup runneth over. 

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow 
me all the days of my life: and I will dwell 
in the house of the Lord for ever. 

Fifth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 24 

T^He earth is the Lord's, and the fulness 
-*- - thereof; the world, and they that dwell 
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2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and 
established it upon the floods. 

3 Who shall ascend unto the hill of the 
Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? 

4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure 
heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto 
vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 

5 He shall receive the blessing from the 
Lord, and righteousness from the God of his 
salvation. 

6 This is the generation of them that seek 
him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. 

7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye 
lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King 
of glory shall come in. 

8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord 
strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. 

9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift 
them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King 
of glory shall come in. 

10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of 
hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah. 

PSALM 25 

UNTO thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 
2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not 
be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over 
me. 

3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: 
let them be ashamed which transgress without 
cause. 

4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy 
paths. 

5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for 
thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do 
I wait all the day. 

6 Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies 
and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been 
ever of old. 



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7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor 
my transgressions: according to thy mercy re- 
member thou me for thy goodness' sake, O 
Lord. 

8 Good and upright is the Lord: therefore 
will he teach sinners in the way. 

9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and 
the meek will he teach his way. 

10 A 1 l the paths of the Lord are mercy and 
truth unto such as keep his covenant and his 
testimonies. 

11 For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon 
mine iniquity; for it is great. 

12 What man is he that feareth the Lord? 
him shall he teach in the way that he shall 
choose. 

13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed 
shall inherit the earth. 

14 The secret of the Lord is with them that 
fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. 

15 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for 
he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 

16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon 
me; for I am desolate and afflicted. 

17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: 
O bring thou me out of my distresses. 

18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; 
and forgive all my sins. 

19 Consider mine enemies; for they are 
many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. 

20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me 
not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. 

21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve 
me; for I wait on thee. 

22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his 
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PSALM 26 

JUDGE me, O Lord; for I have walked in 
mine integrity: I have trusted also in the 
Lord; therefore I shall not slide. 

2 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try 
my reins and my heart. 

3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine 
eyes: and I have walked in thy truth. 

4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither 
will I go in with dissemblers. 

5 I have hated the congregation of evil 
doers; and will not sit with the wicked. 

6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so 
will I compass thine altar, O Lord: 

7 That I may publish with the voice of 
thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous 
works. 

8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy 
house, and the place where thine honour 
dwelleth. . 

9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my 
life with bloody men: 

10 In whose hands is mischief, and their 
right hand is full of bribes. 

11 But as for me, I will walk in mine in- 
tegrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. 

12 My foot standeth in an even place: in 
the congregations will I bless the Lord. 



Fifth Day. Evening 

PSALM 27 

T^HE Lord is my light and my salvation; 

-*- whom shall I fear? the Lord is the 
strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and 
my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, 
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3 Though a host should encamp against me, 
my heart shall not fear: though war should 
rise against me, in this will I be confident. 

4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that 
will I seek after; that I may dwell in the 
house of the Lord all the days of my life, to 
behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire 
in his temple. 

5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me 
in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle 
shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a 
rock. 

6 And now shall mine head be lifted up 
above mine enemies round about me: therefore 
will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; 
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the 
Lord. 

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: 
have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 

8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my 
heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I 
seek. 

9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not 
thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my 
help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God 
of my salvation. 

10 When my father and my mother forsake 
me, then the Lord will take me up. 

11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me 
in a plain path, because of mine enemies. 

12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine 
enemies: for false witnesses are risen up 
against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. 

13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see 
the goodness of the Lord in the land of the 
living. 

14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, 
and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I 
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PSALM 28 

UNTO thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be 
not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to 
me, I become like them that go down into the 
pit. _ 

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when 
I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands 
toward thy holy oracle. 

3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and 
with the workers of iniquity, which speak 
peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in 
their hearts. 

4 Give them according to their deeds, and 
according to the wickedness of their endeav- 
ours: give them after the work of their hands; 
render to them their desert. 

5 Because they regard not the works of the 
Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall 
destroy them, and not build them up. 

6 Blessed be the 1 Lord, because he hath 
heard the voice of my supplications. 

7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; 
my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: 
therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with 
my song will I praise him. 

8 The Lord is their strength, and he is the 
saving strength of his anointed. 

9 Save thy people, and bless thine inherit- 
ance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. 

PSALM 29 

|2, IVE unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give 
^-* unto the Lord glory and strength. 

2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his 
name; worship the Lord in the beauty of 
holiness. 

3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: 
the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon 
many waters. 






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4 The voice of the Lord is powerful; the 
voice' of the Lord is full of majesty. 

5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; 
yea. the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. 

6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; 
Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. 

7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames 
of fire. 

8 The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilder- 
ness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of 
Kadesh. 

9 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds 
to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in 
his temple doth every one speak of his glory. 

10 The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, 
the Lord sitteth King for ever. 

11 The Lord will give strength unto his 
people; the Lord will bless his people with 
peace. 

Sixth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 30 

T will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted 
me up, and hast not made my foes to re- 
joice over me. 

2 O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and 
thou hast healed me. 

3 O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul 
from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that 
I should not go down to the pit. 

4 Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, 
and give thanks at the remembrance of his 
holiness. 

5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in 
his favour is life: weeping may endure for a 
night, but joy cometh in the morning. 

6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never 
be moved. 



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7 Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my 
mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy 
face, and I was troubled. 

8 I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the 
Lord I made supplication. 

9 What profit is there in my blood, when I 
go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise 
thee? shall it declare thy truth? 

10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: 
Lord, be thou my helper. 

11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning 
into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, 
and girded me with gladness; 

12 To the end that my glory may sing 
praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my 
God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. 

PSALM 31 

IN thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me 
* never be ashamed: deliver me in thy right- 
eousness. 

2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me 
speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house 
of defense to save me. 

3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; 
therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and 
guide me. 

4 Pull me out of the net that they have 
laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. 

5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou 
hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. 

6 I have hated them that regard lying van- 
ities: but I trust in the Lord. 

7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: 
for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast 
known my soul in adversities; 

8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of 
the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large 
room. 



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9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am 
in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, 
yea, my soul and my belly. 

10 For my life is spent with grief, and my 
years with sighing: my strength faileth be- 
cause of mine iniquity, and my bones are 
consumed. 

Ill was a reproach among all mine enemies, 
but especially among my neighbours, and a 
fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see 
me without fled from me. 

12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of 
mind: I am like a broken vessel. 

13 For I have heard the slander of many: 
fear was on every side: while they took counsel 
together against me, they devised to take away 
my life. 

14 But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, 
Thou art my God. 

15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me 
from the hand of mine enemies, and from 
them that persecute me. 

16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: 
save me for thy mercies' sake. 

17 Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I 
have called upon thee: let the wicked be 
ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. 

18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; 
which speak grievous things proudly and con- 
temptuously against the righteous. 

19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou 
hast laid up for them that fear thee; which 
thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee 
before the sons of men! 

20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy 
presence from the pride of man: thou shalt 
keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife 
of tongues. 



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21 Blessed be the Lord: for he hath shewed 
me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. 

22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from 
before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest 
the voice of my supplications when I cried unto 
thee. 

23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for 
the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plenti- 
fully rewardeth the proud doer. 

24 Be of good courage, and he shall strength- 
en your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. 



Sixth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 32 

"DLESSED is he whose transgression is fbr- 
*-* given, whose sin is covered. 

2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord 
imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit 
there is no guile. 

3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old 
through my roaring all the day long. 

4 For day and night thy hand was heavy 
upon me: my moisture is turned into the 
drought of summer. Selah. 

5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine 
iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess 
my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou 
forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. 

6 For this shall every one that is godly pray 
unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: 
surely in the floods of great waters they shall 
not come nigh unto him. 

7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt pre- 
serve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me 
about with songs of deliverance. Selah. 

8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the 
way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee 
with mine eye. 



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9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, 
which have no understanding: whose mouth 
must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they 
come near unto thee. 

10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but 
he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall 
compass him about. 

11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye right- 
eous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright 
in heart. 

PSALM 33 

"DEJOICE in the Lord, O ye righteous: for 
■*■*- praise is comely for the upright. 

2 Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him 
with the psaltery and an instrument of ten 
strings. 

3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully 
with a loud noise. 

4 For the word of the Lord is right; and all 
his works are done in truth. 

5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the 
earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. 

6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens 
made; and all the host of them by the breath 
of his mouth. 

7 He gathereth the waters of the sea to- 
gether as a heap: he layeth up the depth in 
storehouses. 

8 Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the 
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 

9 For he spake, and it was done; he com- 
manded, and it stood fast. 

10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the 
heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of 
the people of none effect. 

11 The counsel of the Lord standeth for 
ever, the thoughts of his heart to all gener- 
ations. 



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12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the 
Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen 
for his own inheritance. 

13 The Lord looketh from heaven; he be- 
holdeth all the sons of men. 

14 From the place of his habitation he 
looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. , 

15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he con- 
sidered all their works. 

16 There is no king saved by the multitude 
of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by 
much strength. 

17 A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither 
shall he deliver any by his great strength. 

18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them 
that fear him, upon them that hope in his 
mercy; 

19 To deliver their soul from death, and to 
keep them alive in famine. 

20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our 
help and our shield. 

21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, be- 
cause we have trusted in his holy name. 

22 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, 
according as we hope in thee. 

PSALM 34 

T will bless the Lord at all times: his praise 

-■- sliall continually be in my mouth. 
'•■ 2- My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: 

the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 
: ,3 ; Q magnify the Lord with me, and let us 

exalt his name together. 

; 4 1 s sought the Lord, and he heard me, and 
, delivered me from all my fears. 

. 5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: 
'and their faces were not ashamed. 
.6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard 

him, and saved him out of all his troubles. 



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7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round 
about them that fear him, and delivereth them. 

8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: 
blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 

9 O fear the Lord, ye his. saints: for there is 
no want to them that fear him. 

10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hun- 
ger: but they that seek the Lord shall not 
want any good thing. 

11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I 
will teach you the fear of the Lord. 

12 What man is he that desireth life, and 
loveth many days, that he may see good? 

13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips 
from speaking guile. 

14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek 
peace, and pursue it. 

15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the right- 
eous, and his ears are open unto their cry. 

16 The face of the Lord is against them that 
do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them 
from the earth. 

17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, 
and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 

18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of 
a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a 
contrite spirit. 

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: 
but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. 

20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them 
is broken. 

21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that 
hate the righteous shall be desolate. 

22 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his ser- 
vants: and none of them that trust in him 
shall be desolate. 



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Seventh Day. Morning. 

PSALM 35 

"DLEAD my cause, O Lord, with them that 

■*■ strive with me: fight against them that 

fight against me. 

2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand 
up for mine help. 

3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way 
against them that persecute me: say unto my 
soul, I am thy salvation. 

4 Let them be confounded and put to shame 
that seek after my soul: let them be turned 
back and brought to confusion that devise my 
hurt. 

5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and 
let the angel of the Lord chase them. 

6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and 
let the angel of the Lord persecute them. 

7 For without cause have they hid for me 
their net in a pit, which without cause they 
have digged for my soul. 

8 Let destruction come upon him at una- 
wares; and let his net that he hath hid catch 
himself: into that very destruction let him fall. 

9 And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: 
it shall rejoice in his salvation. 

10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like 
unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him 
that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and 
the needy from him that spoileth him? 

11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to 
my charge things that I knew not. 

12 They rewarded me evil for good to the 
spoiling of my soul. 

13 But as for me, when they were sick, my 
clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul 
with fasting; and my prayer returned into 
mine own bosom. 

14 I behaved myself as though he had been 



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my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, 
as one that mourneth for his mother. 

15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and 
gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects 
gathered themselves together against me, and 
I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased 
not: 

16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they 
gnashed upon me with their teeth. 

17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue 
my soul from their destructions, my darling 
from the lions. 

18 I will give thee thanks in the great con- 
gregation: I will praise thee among much 
people. 

19 Let not them that are mine enemies 
wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them 
wink with the eye that hate me without a 
cause. 

20 For they speak not peace: but they de- 
vise deceitful matters against them that are 
quiet in the land. 

21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against 
me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. 

22 This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not 
silence: O Lord, be not far from me. 

23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judg- 
ment, even unto my cause, my God and my 
Lord. 

24 Judge me, O Lord my God, according to 
thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice 
over me. 

25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so 
would we have it: let them not say, We have 
swallowed him up. 

26 Let them be ashamed and brought to 
confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: 
let them be clothed with shame and dishonour 
that magnify themselves against me. 



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27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that 
favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say 
continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which 
hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 

28 And my tongue shall speak of thy right- 
eousness and of thy praise all the day long. 

PSALM 36 
T^HE transgression of the wicked saith within 
-*■ my heart, that there is no fear of God 
before his eyes. 

2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, 
until his iniquity be found to be hateful. 

3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and 
deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do 
good. 

4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he 
setteth himself in a way that is not good; he 
abhorreth not evil. 

5 Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; 
and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. 

6 Thy righteousness is like the great moun- 
tains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, 
thou preservest man and beast. 

7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O 
God! therefore the children of men put their 
trust under the shadow of thy wings. 

8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the 
fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them 
drink of the river of thy pleasures. 

9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in 
thy light shall we see light. 

10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them 
that know thee; and thy righteousness to the 
upright in heart. 

11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, 
and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. 

12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: 
they are cast down, and shall not be able to 
rise. 



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Seventh Day. Evening. 

PSALM 37 

FRET not thyself because of evil doers, 
neither be thou envious against the workers 
of iniquity. 

2 For they shall soon be cut down like the 
grass, and wither as the green herb. 

3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt 
thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt 
be fed. 

4 Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he 
shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 

5 Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also 
in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 

6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness 
as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 

7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for 
him: fret not thyself because of him who 
prospereth in his way, because of the man who 
bringeth wicked devices to pass. 

8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret 
not thyself in any wise to do evil. 

9 For evil doers shall be cut off: but those 
that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the 
earth. 

10 For yet a little while, and the wicked 
shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider 
his place, and it shall not be. 

11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and 
shall delight themselves in the abundance of 
peace. 

12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and 
gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 

13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth 
that his day is coming. 

14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, 
and have bent their bow, to cast down the 
poor and needy, and to slay such as be of 
upright conversation. 



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15 Their sword shall enter into their own 
heart, and their bows shall be broken. 

16 A little that a righteous man hath is 
better than the riches of many wicked. 

17 For the arms of the wicked shall be 
broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. 

18 The Lord knoweth the days of the up- 
right: and their inheritance shall be for ever. 

19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil 
time: and in the days of famine they shall be 
satisfied. 

20 But the wicked shall perish, and the en- 
emies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: 
they shall consume; into smoke shall they 
consume away. 

21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not 
again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and 
giveth. 

22 For such as be blessed of him shall in- 
herit the earth; and they that be cursed of him 
shall be cut off. 

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by 
the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. 

24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly 
cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with 
his hand. 

25 I have been young, and now am old; yet 
have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor 
his seed begging bread. 

26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his 
seed is blessed. 

27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell 
for evermore. 

28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and for- 
saketh not his saints; they are preserved for 
ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut 
off. 

29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and 
dwell therein for ever. 



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30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wis- 
dom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 

31 The law of his God is in his heart; none 
of his steps shall slide. 

32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and 
seeketh to slay him. 

33 The Lord will not leave him in his hand, 
nor condemn him when he is judged. 

34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and 
he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when 
the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, 
and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 

36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: 
yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 

37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the up- 
right: for the end of that man is peace. 

38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed 
together: the end of the wicked shall be cutoff. 

39 But the salvation of the righteous is of 
the Lord: he is their strength in the time of 
trouble. 

40 And the Lord shall help them, and deliver 
them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, 
and save them, because they trust in him. 

Eighth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 38 

fj Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither 
^^ chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 

2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy 
hand presseth me sore. 

3 There is no soundness in my flesh because 
of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my 
bones because of my sin. 

4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine 
head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy 
for me. 



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5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because 
of my foolishness. 

6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; 
I go mourning all the day long. 

7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome 
disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 

8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared 
by reason of the disquietness of my heart. 

9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my 
groaning is not hid from thee. 

10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: 
as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone 
from me. 

11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof 
from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. 

12 They also that seek after my life lay 
snares for me; and they that seek my hurt 
speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits 
all the day long. 

13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I 
was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 

14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, 
and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 

15 For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou 
wilt hear, O Lord my God. 

16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they 
should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, 
they magnify themselves against me. 

17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is 
continually before me. 

18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will 
be sorry for my sin. 

19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are 
strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are 
multiplied. 

20 They also that render evil for good are 
mine adversaries; because I follow the thing 
that good is. 



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21 Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be 
not far from me. 

22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my 
salvation. 

PSALM 39 

T said, I will take heed to my ways, that I 
J- sm not with my tongue: I will keep my 
mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before 
me. 

2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, 
even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 

3 My heart- was hot within me; while I was 
musing the fire burned: then spake I with my 
tongue. 

4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and 
the measure of my days, what it is; that I 
may know how frail I am. 

5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a 
handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing be- 
fore thee: verily every man at his best is 
altogether vanity. Selah. 

6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: 
surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth 
up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather 
them. 

7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope 
is in thee. 

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: 
make me not the reproach of the foolish. 

9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; 
because thou didst it. 

10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am 
consumed by the blow of thine hand. 

11 When thou with rebukes dost correct 
man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to 
consume away like a moth: surely every man 
is vanity. Selah. 

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unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: 
for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, 
as all my fathers were. 

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, 
before I go hence and be no more. 



Eighth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 40 

T waited patiently for the Lord; and he in- 
*- clined unto me, and heard my cry. 

2 He brought me up also out of a horrible 
pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon 
a rock, and established my goings. 

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, 
even praise unto our God: many shall see it, 
and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. 

4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord 
his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such 
as turn aside to lies. 

5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful 
works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts 
which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned 
up in order unto thee: if I would declare and 
speak of them, they are more than can be 
numbered. 

6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; 
mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and 
sin offering hast thou not required. 

7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume 
of the book it is written of me, 

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, 
thy law is within my heart. 

9 I have preached righteousness in the great 
congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, 
O Lord, thou knowest. 

10 I have not hid thy righteousness within 
my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and 
thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving- 



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kindness and thy truth from the great con- 
gregation. 

11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies 
from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and 
thy truth continually preserve me. 

12 For innumerable evils have compassed me 
about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon 
me, so that I am not able to look up; they are 
more than the hairs of mine head: therefore 
my heart faileth me. 

13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O 
Lord, make haste to help me. 

14 Let them be ashamed and confounded 
together that seek after my soul to destroy 
it; let them be driven backward and put to 
shame that wish me evil. 

15 Let them be desolate for a reward of 
their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. 

16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and 
be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation 
say continually, The Lord be magnified. 

17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord 
thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my 
deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. 

PSALM 41 

T^LESSED is he that considereth the poor: 
•*-'' the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. 

2 The Lord will preserve him, and keep him 
alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: 
and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will 
of his enemies. 

3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the 
bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed 
in his sickness. 

4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal 
my soul; for I have sinned against thee. 

5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall 
he die, and his name perish? 



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6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh 
vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; 
when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. 

7 All that hate me whisper together against 
me: against me do they devise my hurt. 

8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto 
him. and now that he lieth he shall rise up no 
more. 

9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I 
trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted 
up his heel against me. 

10 But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, 
and raise me up, that I may requite them. 

11 By this 1 know that thou favourest me, 
because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 

12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine 
integrity, and settest me before thy face for 
ever. 

13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from 
everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and 
Amen. 

PSALM 42 

AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, 
so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living 
God : when shall I come and appear before 
God? 

3 My tears have been my meat day and 
night, while they continually say unto me, 
Where is thy God? 

4 When I remember these things, I pour out 
my soul in me: for 1 had gone with the multi- 
tude. I went with them to the house of God, 
with the voice of joy and praise, with a multi- 
tude that kept holy day. 

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and 
why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in 



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God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of 
his countenance. 

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within 
me: therefore will I remember thee from the 
land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from 
the hill Mizar. 

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy 
waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are 
gone over me. 

8 Yet the Lord will command his loving- 
kindness in the •daytime, and in the night his 
song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the 
God of my life. 

9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast 
thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because 
of the oppression of the enemy? 

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine en- 
emies reproach me; while they say daily unto 
me, Where is thy God? 

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and 
why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou 
in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the 
health of my countenance, and my God. 

PSALM 43 

JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause 
against an ungodly nation: O deliver me 
from the deceitful and unjust man. 

2 For thou art the God of my strength: why 
dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning 
because of the oppression of the enemy? 

3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let 
them lead me; let them bring me unto thy 
holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 

4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto 
God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp 
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5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and 
why art thou disquieted within me? hope in 
God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the 
health of my countenance, and my God. 

Ninth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 44 

\A/E have heard with our ears, O God, our 
* » fathers have told us, what work thou 
didst in their days, in the times of old. 

2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with 
thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst 
afflict the people, and cast them out. 

3 For they got not the land in possession by 
their own sword, neither did their own arm 
save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, 
and the light of thy countenance, because thou 
hadst a favour unto them. 

4 Thou art my King, O God: command 
deliverances for Jacob. 

5 Through thee will we push down our en- 
emies: through thy name will we tread them 
under that rise up against us. 

6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither 
shall my sword save me. 

7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, 
and hast put them to shame that hated us. 

8 In God we boast all the day long, and 
praise thy name for ever. Selah. 

9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; 
and goest not forth with our armies. 

10 Thou makest us to turn back from the 
enemy: and they which hate us spoil for them- 
selves. 

11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed 
for meat; and hast scattered us among the 
heathen. 



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12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and 
dost not increase thy wealth by their price. 

13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neigh- 
bours, a scorn and a derision to them that are 
round about us. 

14 Thou makest us a byword among the 
heathen, a shaking of the head among the 
people. 

15 My confusion is continually before me, 
and the shame of my face hath covered me, 

16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and 
blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and 
avenger. 

17 All this is come upon us; yet have we 
not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely 
in thy covenant. 

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither 
have our steps declined from thy way; 

19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the 
place of dragons, and covered us with the 
shadow of death. 

20 If we have forgotten the name of our 
God, or stretched out our hands to a strange 
god; 

21 Shall not God search this out? for he 
knoweth the secrets of the heart. 

22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the 
day long; we are counted as sheep for the 
slaughter. 

23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, 
cast us not off for ever. 

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and for- 
gettest our affliction and our oppression? 

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: 
our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 

26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy 
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PSALM 45 

MY heart is inditing a good matter: I speak 
of the things which I have made touching 
the King: my tongue is the pen of a ready- 
writer. 

2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: 
grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God 
hath blessed thee for ever. 

3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most 
Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. 

4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously, be- 
cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; 
and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible 
things. 

5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the 
King's enemies; whereby the people fall under 
thee. 

6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: 
the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 

7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wick- 
edness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed 
thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 

8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, 
and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby 
they have made thee glad. 

9 Kings' daughters were among thy honour- 
able women: upon thy right hand did stand 
the queen in gold of Ophir. 

10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and 
incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, 
and thy father's house; 

11 So shall the King greatly desire thy 
beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou 
him. 

,12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there 
with a gift, even the rich among the people 
shall entreat thy favour. 

13 The King's daughter is all glorious within: 
her clothing is of wrought gold. 



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14 She shall be brought unto the King in 
raiment of needlework: the virgins her com- 
panions that follow her shall be brought unto 
thee. 

15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they 
be brought: they shall enter into the King's 
palace. 

16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy chil- 
dren, whom thou mayest make princes in all 
the earth. 

17 I will make thy name to be remembered 
in all generations: therefore shall the people 
praise thee for ever and ever. 

PSALM 46 

GOD is our refuge and strength, a very- 
present help in trouble. 

2 Therefore will not we fear, though the 
earth be removed, and though the mountains 
be carried into the midst of the sea; 

3 Though the waters thereof roar and be 
troubled, though the mountains shake with the 
swelling thereof. Selah. 

4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall 
make glad the city of God, the holy place of 
the tabernacles of the Most High. 

5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not 
be moved: God shall help her, and that right 
early. 

6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were 
moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 

7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of 
Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 

8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what 
desolations he hath made in the earth. 

9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of 
the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth 
the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in 
the fire. 



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10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will 
be exalted among the heathen, I will be ex- 
alted in the earth. 

11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of 
Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 

PSALM 47 

Oclap your hands, all ye people; shout unto 
God with the voice of triumph. 

2 For the Lord most high is terrible; he is 
a great King over all the earth. 

3 He shall subdue the people under us, and 
the nations under our feet. 

4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the 
excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. 

5 God is gone up with a shout, the Lord 
with the sound of a trumpet. 

6 Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing 
praises unto our King, sing praises. 

7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing 
ye praises with understanding. 

8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth 
upon the throne of his holiness. 

9 The princes of the people are gathered 
together, even the people of the God of 
Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong 
unto God: he is greatly exalted. 



Ninth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 48 

GREAT is the Lord, and greatly to be praised 
in the city of our God, in the mountain 
of his holiness. 

2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole . 
earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, 
the city of the great King. 

3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 



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4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they 
passed by together. 

5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they 
were troubled, and hasted away. 

6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, 
as of a woman in travail. 

7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with 
an east wind. 

8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the 
city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our 
God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. 

9 We have thought of thy loving kindness, 
O God, in the midst of thy temple. 

10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy 
praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right 
hand is full of righteousness. 

11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters 
of Tudah be glad, because of thy judgments. 

12 Walk about Zion, and go round about 
her: tell the towers thereof. 

13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her 
palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation 
following. 

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: 
he will be our guide even unto* death. ' 

PSALM 49 

EAR this, all ye people; give ear all ye 
inhabitants of the world. 

2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together. 

3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the 
meditation of my heart shall be of under- 
standing. 

4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will 
open my dark saying upon the harp. 

5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of 
evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall com 
pass me about? 



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6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast 
themselves in the multitude of their riches; 

7 None of them can by any means redeem 
his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 

8 (For the redemption of their soul is prec- 
ious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 

9 That he should still live for ever, and not 
see corruption. 

10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise 
the tool and the brutish person perish, and 
leave their wealth to others. 

11 Their inward thought is, that their houses 
shall continue for ever, and their dwellingplaces 
to all generations; they call their lands after 
their own names. 

12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth 
not: he is like the beasts that perish. 

13 This their way is their folly: yet their 
posterity approve their sayings. Selah. 

14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; 
death shall feed on them; and the upright shall 
have dominion over them in the morning; and 
their beauty shall consume in the grave from 
their dwelling. 

15 But God will redeem my soul from the 
power of the grave: for he shall receive me. 
Selah. 

16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, 
when the glory of his house is increased; 

17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing 
away: his glory shall not descend after him. 

18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul, 
(and men will praise thee, when thou doest well 
to thyself,) 

19 He shall go to the generation of his 
fathers; they shall never see light. 

20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth 
not, is like the beasts that perish. 



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Tenth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 50 

THE mighty God, even the Lord, hath 
spoken, and called the earth from the rising 
of the sun unto the going down thereof. 

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God 
hath shined. 

3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep 
silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it 
shall be very tempestuous round about him. 

4 He shall call to the heavens from above, 
and to the earth, that he may judge his people. 

5 Gather my saints together unto me; those 
that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 

6 And the heavens shall declare his right- 
eousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. 

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O 
Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am 
God, even thy God. 

8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices 
or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually 
before me. 

9 I will take no bullock out of thy house 
nor he goats out of thy folds: 

10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and 
the cattle upon a thousand hills. 

11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: 
and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: 
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the 
blood of goats? 

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay 
thy vows unto the Most High: 

15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: 
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 

16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast 
thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou 
shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 



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17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and cast- 
est my words behind thee. 

18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou con- 
sentedst with him, and hast been partaker with 
adulterers. 

19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy 
tongue frameth deceit. 

20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy 
brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's 
son. 

21 These things hast thou done, and I kept 
silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether 
such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, 
and set them in order before thine eyes. 

22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, 
lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none 
to deliver. 

23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and 
to him that ordereth his conversation aright 
will I shew the salvation of God. 

PSALM 51 

T-jAYE mercy upon me, O God, according to 
*-■*■ thy lovingkindness: according unto the 
multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my 

transgressions. 

2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, 
and cleanse me from my sin. 

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and 
my sin is ever before me. 

4 Against thee, thee only, have 1 sinned, 
and done this evil in thy sight: that thou might- 
est be justified when thou speakest, and be 
clear when thou judgest. 

5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in 
sin did my mother conceive me. 

6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward 
parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make 
me to know wisdom. 



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7 Purge me with hpssop, and I shall be 
clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than 
snow. 

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that 
the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 

9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out 
all mine iniquities. 

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and 
renew a right spirit within me. 

11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and 
take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 

12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; 
and uphold me with thy free Spirit. 

13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; 
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 

14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, 
thou God of my salvation: and my tongue 
shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 

15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my 
mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 

16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would 
I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: 
a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt 
not despise. 

18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: 
build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 

19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sac- 
rifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and 
whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bul- 
locks upon thine altar. 

PSALM 52 

WHY boastest thou thyself in mischief, O 
mighty man? the goodness of God en- 
dureth continually. 

2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp 
razor, working deceitfully. 



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3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying 
rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 

4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou 
deceitful tongue. 

5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, 
he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of 
thy dwellingplace, and root thee out of the 
land of the living. Selah. 

6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and 
shall laugh at him: 

7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his 
strength; but trusted in the abundance of his 
riches, and strengthened himself in his wick- 
edness. 

8 But I am like a green olive tree in the 
house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for 
ever and ever. 

9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou 
hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for 
it is good before thy saints. 

Tenth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 53 

T^HE fool hath said in his heart, There is no 
■*• God. Corrupt are they, and have done 

abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth 

good. 

2 God looked down from heaven upon the 
children of men, to see if there were any that 
did understand, that did seek God. 

3 Every one of them is gone back: they are 
altogether become filthy; there is none that 
doeth good, no, not one. 

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowl- 
edge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: 
they have not called upon God. 

• 5 There were they in great fear, where no 
fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of 



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him that encampeth against thee: thou hast 
put them to shame, because God hath despised 
them. 

6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come 
out of Zion! When God bringeth back the 
captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and 
Israel shall be glad. 

PSALM 54 

CAVE me, O God, by thy name, and judge. 
*** me by thy strength. 

2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the 
words of my mouth. 

3 For strangers are risen up against me, and 
oppressors seek after my soul: they have not 
set God before them. Selah. 

4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is 
with them that uphold my soul. 

5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: 
cut them off in thy truth. 

6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will 
praise thy name, O Lord; for it is good. 

7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: 
and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine 
enemies. 

PSALM 55 

GIVE ear to my prayer, O God; and hide 
not thyself from my supplication. 

2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn 
in my complaint, and make a noise; 

3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because 
of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast 
iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. 

4 My heart is sore pained within me: and 
the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 

5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon 
me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. 



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6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a 
dove! for then would I fly away, and be at 
rest. 

7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and re- 
main in the wilderness. Selah. 

8 I would hasten my escape from the windy 
storm and tempest. 

9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: 
for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 

10 Day and night they go about it upon 
the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow 
are in the midst of it. 

11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit 
and guile depart not from her streets. 

12 For it was not an enemy that reproached 
me; then I could have borne it: neither was 
it he that hated me that did magnify himself 
against me; then 1 would have hid mj^self 
from him: 

13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my 
guide, and mine acquaintance. 

14 We took sweet counsel together, and 
walked unto the house of God in company. 

15 Let death seize upon them, and let them 
go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in 
their dwellings, and among them. 

16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the 
Lord shall save me. 

17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will 
I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my 
voice. 

18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from 
the battle that was against me: for there were 
many with me. 

19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he 
that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have 
no changes, therefore they fear not God. 

20 He hath put forth his hands against such 



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as be at peace with him: he hath broken his 
covenant. 

21 The words of his mouth were smoother 
than butter, but war was in his heart: his 
words were softer than oil, yet were they 
drawn swords. 

22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he 
shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the 
righteous to be moved. 

23 But thou. O God, shalt bring them down 
into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceit- 
ful men shall not live out half their days; but 
I will trust in thee. 

Eleventh Day. Morning. 

PSALM 56 

"DE merciful unto me, O God: for man would 
*-* swallow me up; he fighting daily oppress- 
eth me. 

2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: 
for they be many that fight against me, O thou 
Most High. 

3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 

4 In God I will praise his word, in God 1 
have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh 
can do unto me. 

5 Every day they wrest my words: all their 
thoughts are against me for evil. 

6 They gather themselves together, they hide 
themselves, they mark my steps, when they 
wait for my soul. 

7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine 
anger cast down the people, O God. 

8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my 
tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 

9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine 
enemies turn back: this I know; for God is 
for me. 



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10 In God will I praise his word: in the 
Lord will I praise his word. 

11 In God have I put my trust: I will not 
be afraid what man can do unto me. 

12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will 
render praises unto thee. 

13 For thou hast delivered my soul from 
death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from fall- 
in-, that I may walk before God in the light 
of the living? 

PSALM 57 

D I. merciful unto me, O God, be merciful 
*-* unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, 
in the shadow of thy wings will I make my 
refuge, until these calamities be overpast. 

2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God 
that performeth all things for me. 

3 He shall send from heaven, and save me 
from the reproach of him that would swallow 
me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy 
and his truth. 

4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even 
among them that are set on fire, even the sons 
of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, 
and their tongue a sharp sword. 

5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; 
let thy glory be above all the earth. 

6 They have prepared a net for my steps; 
my soul is bowed down: the}'' have digged a 
pit before me. into the midst whereof they are 
fallen themselves. Selah. 

7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is 
fixed: I will sing and give praise. 

8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and 
harp: I myself will awake early. 

9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the 
people: I will sing unto thee among the nations. 



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10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, 
and thy truth unto the clouds. 

11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heav- 
ens: let thy glory be above all the earth. 

PSALM 58 

IjO ye indeed speak righteousness, O con- 
gregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye 
sons of men? 

2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye 
weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: 
they go astray as soon as they be born, speak- 
ing lies. 

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: 
they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her 
ear; 

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of 
charmers, charming never so wisely. 

6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: 
break out the great teeth of the voung lions, 
O Lord. 

7 Let them melt away as waters which run 
continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot 
his arrows, let them be as cut in .pieces. 

8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of 
them pass away: like the untimely birth of a 
woman, that they may not see the sun. 

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he 
shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both 
living, and in his wrath. 

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth 
the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the 
blood of the wicked. 

11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is 
a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God 
that judgeth in the earth. 



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Eleventh Day. Evening. 

PSALM 59 

jj ELIVER me from mine enemies, O my 
*~-^ . God: defend me from them that rise up 
against me. 

2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, 
and save me from bloody men. 

3 For, lo. they lie in wait for my soul: the 
mighty are gathered against me; not for my 
transgression, not for my sin, O Lord. 

4 They run and prepare themselves without 
my fault: awake to help me, and behold. 

5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the 
God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: 
be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. 
Selah. 

6 They return at evening: they make a noise 
like a dog. and go round about the city. 

7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: 
swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth 
hear? 

8 But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; 
thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. 

9 Because of his strength will I wait upon 
thee: for God is my defence. 

10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: 
God shall let me see my desire upon mine 
enemies. 

11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: 
scatter them by thy power; and bring them 
down, O Lord our shield. 

12 For the sin of their mouth and the words 
of their lips let them even be taken in their 
pride: and for cursing and lying which they 
speak. 

13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, 
that they may not be: and let them know that 



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God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. 
Selah. 

14 And at evening let them return; and let 
them make a noise like a dog, and go round 
about the city. 

15 Let them wander up and down for meat, 
and grudge if they be not satisfied. 

16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will 
sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for 
thou hast been my defence and refuge in the 
day of my trouble. 

17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: 
for God is my defence, and the God of my 
mercy. 

PSALM 60 

fj God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scat- 
^^ tered us, thou hast been displeased; O 
turn thyself to us again. 

2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou 
hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for 
it shaketh. 

3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: 
thou hast made us to drink the wine of aston- 
ishment. 

4 Thou hast given a banner to them that 
fear thee, that it may be displayed because of 
the truth. Selah. 

5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save 
with thy right hand, and hear me. 

6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will 
rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out 
the valley of Succoth. 

7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; 
Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; 
Jrdah is my lawgiver; 

8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I 
cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou be- 
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9 Who will bring me into the strong city? 
who will lead me into Edom? 

10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast 
us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go 
out with our armies? 

11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is 
the help of man. 

12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for 
he it is that shall tread down our enemies. 



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PSALM 61 

EAR my cry, O God; attend unto my 
prayer. 

2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto 
thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me 
to the rock that is higher than I. 

3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and 
a strong tower from the enemy. 

4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I 
will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah. 

5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: 
thou hast given me the heritage of those that 
fear thy name. 

6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his 
years as many generations. 

7 He shall abide before God for ever: O 
prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve 
him. 

8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for 
ever, that I may daily perform my vows. 

Twelfth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 62 

T^RULY my soul waiteth upon God: from 
-*■ him cometh my salvation. 

2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he 
is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. 

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a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing- 
wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. 

4 They only consult to cast him down from 
his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless 
with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. 
Selah. 

5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my 
expectation is from him. 

6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is 
my defence; I shall not be moved. 

7 In God is my salvation and my glory: 
the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is 
in God. 

8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour 
out your heart before him: God is a refuge for 
us. Selah. 

9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and 
men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the 
balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 

10 Trust not in oppression, and become not 
vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your 
heart upon them. 

11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard 
this; that power belongeth unto God. 

12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: 
for thou renderest to every man according to 
his work. 

PSALM 63 

/j God, thou art my God; early will I seek 
^•^ thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh 
longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, 
where no water is; 

2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I 
have seen thee in the sanctuary. 

3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than 
life, my lips shall praise thee. 

4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will 
lift up my hands in thy name. 



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5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow 
and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee 
with joyful lips: 

6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and 
meditate on thee in the night watches. 

7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore 
in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 

8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy 
right hand upholdeth me. 

9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, 
shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 

10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall 
be a portion for' foxes. 

11 But the King shall rejoice in God; every 
one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the 
mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. 

PSALM 64 

X-T EAR my voice, O God, in my prayer: pre- 
•*■•*■ serve my life from fear of the enemy. 

2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the 
wicked; from the insurrection of the workers 
of iniquity: 

3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and 
bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even 
bitter words: 

4 That they may shoot in secret at the per- 
fect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear 
not. 

5 They encourage themselves in an evil 
matter: they commune of laying snares privily; 
they say, Who shall see them? 

6 They search out iniquites; they accomplish 
a diligent search: both the inward thought of 
every one of them, and the heart, is deep. 

7 But God shall shoot at them with an 
arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 

8 So they shall make their own tongue to 



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fall upon themselves: all that see them shall 
flee away. 

9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare 
the work of God; for they shall wisely con- 
sider of his doing. 

10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, 
and shall trust in him; and all the upright in 
heart shall glory. 



Twelfth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 65 

PRAISE waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion: 
■*■ and unto thee shall the vow be performed. 

2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall 
all flesh come. 

3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our 
transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. 

4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, 
and causest to approach unto thee, that he may 
dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with 
the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy 
temple. 

5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt 
thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who 
art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, 
and of them that are afar off upon the sea. 

6 Which by his strength setteth fast the 
mountains; being girded with power: 

7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the 
noise of their waves, and the tumult of the 
people. 

8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts 
are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the out- 
goings of the morning and evening to rejoice. 

9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: 
thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, 
which is full of water: thou preparest them 
corn, when thou hast so provided for it. 



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10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abun- 
dantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou 
makest it soft with showers: thou blessest 
the springing thereof. 

11 Thou crownest the year with thy good- 
ness; and thy paths drop fatness. 

12 They drop upon the pastures of the wild- 
erness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 

13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the 
valleys also are covered over with corn; they 
shout for joy, they also sing. 

PSALM 66 

MAKE a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: 
2 Sing forth the honour of his name: 
make his praise glorious. 

3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in 
thy works! through the greatness of thy power 
shall thine enemies submit themselves unto 
thee. 

4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall 
sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. 
Selah. 

5 Come and see the works of God: he is 
terrible in his doing toward the children of 
men. 

6 He turned the sea into dry land: they 
went through the flood on foot: there did we 
rejoice in him. 

7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes 
behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt 
themselves. Selah. 

8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the 
voice of his praise to be heard: 

9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffer- 
eth not our feet to be moved. 

10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou 
hast tried us, as silver is tried. 



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11 Thou broughtest us unto the net; thou 
laidst affliction upon our loins. 

12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our 
heads; we went through fire and through water: 
but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy- 
place. 

13 I will go into thy house with burnt offer- 
ings: I will pay thee my vows, 

14 Which my lips have uttered, and my 
mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. 

15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of 
fatlings, with the incense of rams: I will offer 
bullocks with goats. Selah. 

16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and 
I will declare what he hath done for my soul. 

17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and 
he was extolled with my tongue. 

18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord 
will not hear me: 

19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath 
attended to the voice of my prayer. 

20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned 
away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. 

PSALM 67 

GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us; and 
cause his face to shine upon us; Selah. 

2 That thy way may be known upon earth, 
thy saving health among all nations. 

3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let 
all the people praise thee. 

4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: 
for thou shalt judge the people righteously, 
and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. 

5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all 
the people praise thee. 



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6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; 
and God, even our own God, shall bless us. 

7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of 
the earth shall fear him. 

Thirteenth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 68 

| ET God arise, let his enemies be scattered: 
•*-' let them also that hate him flee before him. 

2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them 
away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let 
the wicked perish at the presence of God. 

3 But let the righteous be glad; let them 
rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly 
rejoice. 

4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: 
extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his 
name JAH, and rejoice before him. 

5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of 
the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 

6 God setteth the solitary in families: he 
bringeth out those which are bound with 
chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. 

7 O God, when thou wentest forth before 
thy people, when thou didst march through 
the wilderness; Selah: 

8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped 
at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was 
moved at the presence of God, the God of 
Israel. 

9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, 
whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, 
when it was weary. 

10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: 
thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness 
for the poor. 

11 The Lord gave the word: great was the 
company of those that published it. 



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12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she 
that tarried at home divided the spoil. 

13 Though ye have lain among the pots, 
yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered 
with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. 

14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, 
it was white as snow in Salmon. 

<*15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; 
a high hill as the hill of Bashan. 

16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the 
hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the 
Lord will dwell in it for ever. 

17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, 
even thousands of angels: the Lord is among 
them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. 

18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led 
captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for 
men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord 
God might dwell among them. 

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us 
with benefits, even the God of our salvation. 
Selah. 

20 He that is our God is the God of salva- 
tion; and unto God the Lord belong the issues 
from death. 

21 But God shall wound the head of his 
enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as 
goeth on still in his trespasses. 

22 The Lord said, I will bring again from 
Bashan, I will bring my people again from the 
depths of the sea: 

23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood 
of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs 
in the same. 

24 They have seen thy goings, O God; even 
the goings of my God, my King, in the sanc- 
tuary. 

25 The singers went before, the players on 



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instruments followed after; among them were 
the damsels playing with timbrels. 

26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even 
the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. 

27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, 
the princes of Judah and their council, the 
princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtajj. 

28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: 
strengthen, O God, that which thou hast 
wrought for us. 

29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall 
kings bring presents unto thee. 

30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the 
multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the 
people, till every one submit himself with pieces 
of silver: scatter thou the people that delight 
in war. 

31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia 
shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. 

32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; 
O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah: 

33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of 
heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send 
out his voice, and that a mighty voice. 

34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his ex- 
cellency is over Israel, and his strength is in 
the clouds. 

35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy 
places: the God of Israel is he that giveth 
strength and power unto his people. Blessed 
be God. 

Thirteenth Day. Evening. 
PSALM 69 

CAVE me, O God; for the waters are come 
^ in unto my soul. 

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no 
standing: I am come into deep waters, where 
the floods overflow me 



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3 I am weary of my crying :_ my throat is 
dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 

4 They that hate me without a cause are 
more than the hairs of mine head:_ they that 
would destroy me, being mine enemies wrong- 
fully, are mighty: then I restored that which 
I took not away. 

5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and 
my sins are not hid from thee. 

6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord 
God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let 
not those that seek thee be confounded for 
my sake, O God of Israel. 

7 Because for thy sake I have borne re- 
proach; shame hath covered my face. 

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, 
and an alien unto my mother's children. 

9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me 
up; and the reproaches of them that reproached 
thee are fallen upon me. 

10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with 
fasting, that was to my reproach. 

11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and 
I became a proverb to them. 

12 They that sit in the gate speak against 
me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 

13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, 
O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the 
multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth 
of thy salvation. 

14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me 
not sink: let me be delivered from them that 
hate me, and out of the deep waters. 

15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, 
neither let the deep swallow me up, and let 
not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 

16 Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness 
is good: turn unto me according to the multi- 
tude of thy tender mercies. 



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17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; 
for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 

18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: 
deliver me because of mine enemies. 

19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my 
shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries 
are all before thee. 

20 Reproach hath broken my heart, and 1 
am full of heaviness: and I looked for some 
to take pity, but there was none; and for 
comforters, but I found none. 

21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and 
in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 

22 Let their table become a snare before 
them: and that which should have been for 
their welfare, let it become a trap. 

23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see 
not; and make their loins continually to shake. 

24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, 
and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 

25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let 
none dwell in their tents. 

26 For they persecute him whom thou hast 
smitten; and -they talk to the grief of those 
whom thou hast wounded. 

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let 
them not come into thy righteousness. 

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of 
the living, and not be written with the right- 
eous. 

29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy 
salvation, O God, set me up on high. - 

30 I will praise the name of God with a song, 
and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 

31 This also shall please the Lord better 
than an ox or bullock that hath horns and 
hoofs. 

32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: 
and your heart shall live that seek God. 



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33 For the Lord heareth the poor, and de- 
spiseth not his prisoners. 

34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the 
seas, and every thing that moveth therein. 

35 For God will save Zion, and will build 
the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, 
and have it in possession. 

36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit 
it: and they that love his name shall dwell 
therein. 

PSALM 70 

A/TAKE haste, O God, to deliver me; make 
-*•*-'■ haste to help me, O Lord. 

2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that 
seek after my soul: let them be turned back- 
ward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. 

3 Let them be turned back for a reward of 
their shame that say, Aha, aha. 

4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be 
glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation 
say continually, Let God be magnified. 

5 But I am poor and needy; make haste 
unto me, O God: thou art my help and my 
deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying. 

Fourteenth Day. Morning. 
PSALM 71 

IN thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me 
never be put to confusion. 

2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause 
me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and 
save me. 

3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto 
I mav continually resort: thou hast given com- 
mandment to save me; for thou art my rock 
and my fortress. 

4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of 



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the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous 
and cruel man. 

5 For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou 
art my trust from my youth. 

6 By thee have I been holden up from the 
womb: thou art he that took me out of my 
mother's bowels: my praise shall be continu- 
ally of thee. 

7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou 
art my strong refuge. 

8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and 
with thy honour all the day. 

9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; 
forsake me not when my strength faileth. 

10 For mine enemies speak against me; and 
they that lay wait for my soul take counsel 
together. 

11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute 
and take him; for there is none to deliver him. 

12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, 
make haste for my help. 

13 Let them be confounded and consumed 
that are adversaries to my soul; let them be 
covered with reproach and dishonour that seek 
my hurt. 

14 But I will hope continually, and will yet 
praise thee more and more. 

15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteous- 
ness and thy salvation all the day; for I know 
not the numbers thereof. 

16 I will go in the strength of the Lord 
God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, 
even of thine only. 

17 O God, thou hast taught me from my 
youth: and hitherto have I declared thy won- 
drous works. 

18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, 
O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed 



THE PSALTER 353 

thy strength unto this generation, and thy 
power to every one that is to come. 

19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very 
high, who hast done great things: O God, who 
is like unto thee! 

20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and 
sore troubles, -shalt quicken me again, and 
shalt bring me up again from the depths of 
the earth. 

21 Thou shalt increase my -greatness, and 
comfort me on every side. 

22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, 
even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I 
sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. 

23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing 
unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast 
redeemed. 

24 My tongue also shall talk of thy right- 
eousness all the day long: for they are con- 
founded, for they are brought unto shame, 
that seek my hurt. 

PSALM 72 

JJ.IVE the king thy judgments, O God, and 
^-* thy righteousness unto the king's son. 

2 He shall judge thy people with righteous- 
ness, and thy poor with judgment. 

3 The mountains shall bring peace to the 
people, and the little hills, by righteousness. 

4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he 
shall save the children of the needy, and shall 
break in pieces the oppressor. 

5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and 
moon endure, throughout all generations. 

6 He shall come down like rain upon the 
mown grass: as showers that water the earth. 

7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; 
and abundance of peace so long as the moon 
endureth. 



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8 He shall have dominion also from sea to 
sea, and from the river unto the ends of the 
earth. 

9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow 
before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. 

10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles 
shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and 
Seba shall offer gifts. 

11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: 
all nations shall serve him. 

12 For he shall deliver the needy when be 
crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no 
helper. 

13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and 
shall save the souls of the needy. 

14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit 
and violence: and precious shall their blood be 
in his sight. 

15 And he shall live, and to him shall be 
given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall 
be made for him continually; and daily shall 
he be praised. 

16 There shall be a handful of corn in the 
earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit 
thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of 
the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. 

17 His name shall endure for ever: his name 
shall be continued as long as the sun: and men 
shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call 
him blessed. 

18 Blessed be the Lord God, the God of 
Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. 

19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: 
and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. 
Amen, and Amen. 

20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse 
are ended. 



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Fourteenth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 73 

r T 1 RULY God is good to Israel, even to such 
* as are of a clean heart. 

2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; 
my steps had well nigh slipped. 

3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I 
saw the prosperity of the wicked. 

4 For there are no bands in their death: but 
their strength is firm. 

5 They are not in trouble as other men; 
neither are they plagued like other men. 

6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as 
a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 

7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they 
have more than heart could wish. 

8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly con- 
cerning oppression: they speak loftily. 

9 They set their mouth against the heavens, 
and their tongue walketh through the earth. 

10 Therefore his people return hither: and 
waters of a full cup are wrung out of them. 

11 And they say, How doth God know? and 
is there knowledge in the Most High? 

12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who pros- 
per in the world; they increase in riches. 

13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, 
and washed my hands in innocency. 

14 For all the day long have I been plagued, 
and chastened every morning. 

15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I 
should offend against the generation of thy 
children. 

16 When I thought to know this, it was too 
painful for me; 

17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; 
then understood I their end. 



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18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery 
places: thou castedst them down into destruc- 
tion. 

19 How are they brought into desolation, as 
in a moment! they are utterly consumed with 
terrors. 

20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O 
Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise 
their image. 

21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was 
pricked in my reins. 

22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as 
a beast before thee. 

23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: 
thou has holden me by my right hand. 

24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, 
and afterward receive me to glory. 

25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and 
there is none upon earth that I desire besides 
thee. 

26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God 
is the strength of my heart, and my portion 
for ever. 

27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall 
perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go 
a whoring from thee. 

28 But it is good for me to draw near to 
God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, 
that I may declare all thy works. 

PSALM 74 

OGod, why hast thou cast us off for ever? 
why doth thine anger smoke against the 
sheep of thy pasture? 

2 Remember thy congregation, which thou 
hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inherit- 
ance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount 
Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 



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3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual deso- 
lations; even all that the enemy hath done 
wickedly in the sanctuary. 

4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy 
congregations; they set up their ensigns for 
signs. 

5 A man was famous according as he had 
lifted up axes upon the thick trees. 

6 But now they break down the carved work 
thereof at once with axes and hammers. 

7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, 
they have denied by casting down the dwelling- 
place of thy name to the ground. 

8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy 
them together: they have burned up all the 
synagogues of God in the land. 

9 We see not our signs: there is no more 
any prophet: neither is there among us any 
that knoweth how long. 

10 O God, how long shall the adversary 
reproach? shall the enemy blashpheme thy 
name for ever? 

11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even 
thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. 

12 For God is my King of old, working 
salvation in the midst of the earth. 

13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: 
thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the 
waters. 

14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in 
pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people 
inhabiting the wilderness. 

15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the 
flood; thou driest up mighty rivers. 

16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: 
thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 

17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: 
thou hast made summer and winter. 

18 Remember this, that the enemy hath re- 



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proached, O Lord, and that the foolish people 
have blasphemed thy name. 

19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove 
unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not 
the congregation of thy poor for ever. 

20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the 
dark places of the earth are full of the habita- 
tions of cruelty. 

21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: 
let the poor and needy praise thy name. 

22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: 
remember how the foolish man reproacheth 
thee daily. 

23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: 
the tumult of those that rise up against thee 
increaseth continually. 

Fifteenth Day. Morning. 
PSALM 75 

UNTO thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto 
thee do we give thanks: for that thy name 
is near thy wondrous works declare. 

2 When I shall receive the congregation I 
will judge uprightly. 

3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof 
are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. 
Selah. 

4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: 
and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 

5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not 
with a stiff neck. 

6 For promotion cometh neither from the 
east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 

7 But God is the judge: he putteth down 
one, and setteth up another. 

8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a 
cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; 
and he poureth out the same: but the dregs 



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thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring 
them out, and drink them. 

9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing 
praises to the God of Jacob. 

10 All the horns of the wicked also will I 
cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be 
exalted. 

PSALM 76 

1*N Judah is God known: his name is great 
A in Israel. 

2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his 
dwellingplace in Zion. 

3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the 
shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. 

4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than 
the mountains of prey. 

5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have 
slept their sleep: and none of the men of might 
have found their hands. 

6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the 
chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. 

7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who 
may stand in thy sight when once thou art 
angry? 

8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard 
from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, 

9 When God arose to judgment, to save all 
the meek of the earth. Selah. 

10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: 
the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. 

11 Vow, and pay unto the. Lord your God: 
let all that be round about him bring presents 
unto him that ought to be feared. 

12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he 
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PSALM 77 

I cried unto God with my voice, even unto 
God with my voice; and he gave ear unto 
me. 

2 In the day of my trouble I sought the 
Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased 
not: my soul refused to be comforted. 

3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I 
complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. 
Selah. 

4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so 
troubled that I cannot speak. 

5 I have considered the days of old, the 
years of ancient times. 

6 I call to remembrance my song in the 
night: I commune with mine own heart: and 
my spirit made diligent search. 

7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will 
he be favourable no more? 

8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his 
promise fail for evermore? 

9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath 
he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. 

10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I 
will remember the years of the right hand of 
the Most High. 

11 I will remember the works of the Lord: 
surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 

12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and 
talk of thy doings. 

13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who 
is so great a God as our God? 

14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: 
thou hast declared thy strength among the 
people. 

15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy 
people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 

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saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also 
were troubled. 

17 The clouds poured out water: the skies 
sent out a sound: thine arrows also went 
abroad. 

18 The voice of thy thunder was in the 
heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: 
the earth trembled and shook. 

19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in 
the great waters, and thy footsteps are not 
known. 

20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by 
the hand of Moses and Aaron. 



Fifteenth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 78 

GIVE ear, O my people, to my law: incline 
your ears to the words of my mouth. 

2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will 
utter dark sayings of old: 

3 Which we have heard and known, and 
our fathers have told us. 

4 We will not hide them from their children, 
shewing to the generation to come the praises 
of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonder- 
ful works that he hath done. 

5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, 
and appointed a law in Israel, which he com- 
manded our fathers, that they should make 
them known to their children: 

6 That the generation to come might know 
them, even the children which should be born; 
who should arise and declare them to their 
children: 

7 That they might set their hope in God, 
and not forget the works of God, but keep 
his commandments: 

8 And might not be as their fathers, a stub- 
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that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit 
was not steadfast with God. 

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, 
and carrying bows, turned back in the day of 
battle. 

10 They kept not the covenant of God, and 
refused to walk in his law; 

11 And forgat his works, and his wonders 
that he hath shewed them. 

12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of 
their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field 
of Zoan. 

13 He divided the sea, and caused them to 
pass through; and he made the waters to stand 
as a heap. 

14 In the daytime also he led them with a 
cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 

15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and 
gave them drink as out of the great depths. 

16 He brought streams also out of the rock, 
and caused waters to run down like rivers. 

17 And they sinned yet more against him 
by provoking the Most High in the wilderness. 

18 And they tempted God in their heart by 
asking meat for their lust. 

19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, 
Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 

20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters 
gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can 
he give bread also? can he provide flesh for 
his people? 

21 Therefore the Lord heard this, and was 
wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, 
and anger also came up against Israel; 

22 Because they believed not in God, and 
trusted not in his salvation: 

23 Though he had commanded the clouds 
from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 

24 And had rained down manna upon them 



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to eat, and had given them of the corn of 
heaven. 

25 Man did eat angel's food: he sent them 
meat to the full. 

26 He caused an east wind to blow in the 
heaven: and by his power he brought in the 
south wind. 

27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, 
and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: 

28 And he let it fall in the midst of their 
camp, round about their habitations. 

29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for 
he gave them their own desire; 

30 They were not estranged from their lust: 
but while their meat was yet in their mouths, 

31 The wrath of God came upon them, and 
slew the fattest of them, and smote down the 
chosen men of Israel. 

32 For all this they sinned still, and believed 
not for his wondrous works. 

33 Therefore their days did he consume in 
vanity, and their years in trouble. 

34 When he slew them, then they sought 
him: and they returned and inquired early 
after God. 

35 And they remembered that God was their 
Rock, and the high God their Redeemer. 

36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with 
their mouth, and they lied unto him with their 
tongues. 

37 For their heart was not right with him, 
neither were they steadfast in his covenant. 

38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave 
their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, 
many a time turned he his anger away, and 
did not stir up all his wrath. 

39 For he remembered that they were but 
flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh 
not again. 



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40 How oft did they provoke him in the 
wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 

41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, 
and limited the Holy One of Israel. 

42 They remembered not his hand, nor the 
day when he delivered them from the enemy: 

43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, 
and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 

44 And had turned their rivers into blood; 
and their floods, that they could not drink. 

45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, 
which devoured them; and frogs, which de- 
stroyed them. 

46 He gave also their increase unto the cater- 
pillar, and their labour unto the locust. 

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and 
their sycamore trees with frost. 

48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, 
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 

49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his 
anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by 
sending evil angels among them. 

50 He made a way to his anger; he spared 
not their soul from death, but gave their life 
over to the pestilence; 

51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the 
chief of their strength in the tabernacles of 
Ham: 

52 But made his own people to go forth like 
sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like 
a flock. 

53 And he led them on safely, so that they 
feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their 
enemies. 

54 And he brought them to the border of 
his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his 
right hand had purchased. 

55 He cast out the heathen also before them, 



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and divided them an inheritance by line, and 
made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 

56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most 
high God, and kept not his testimonies: 

57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully 
like their fathers: they were turned aside like 
a deceitful bow. 

58 For they provoked him to anger with 
their high places, and moved him to jealousy 
with their graven images. 

59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and 
greatly abhorred Israel: 

60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of 
Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 

61 .And delivered his strength into captivity, 
and his glory into the enemy's hand. 

62 He gave his people over also unto the 
sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. 

63 The fire consumed their young men; and 
their maidens were not given to marriage. 

64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their 
widows made no lamentation. 

65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of 
sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by 
reason of wine. 

66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder 
parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. 

67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of 
Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 

68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount 
Zion which he loved. 

69 And he built his sanctuary 1 like high 
palaces, like the earth which he had established 
for ever. 

70 He chose David also his servant, and took 
him from the sheepfolds: 

71 From following the ewes great with young 
he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and 
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72 So he fed them acording to the integrity 
of his heart; and guided them by the skilful- 
ness of his hands. 

Sixteenth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 79 

OGod, the heathen are come into thine in- 
heritance; thy holy temple have they de- 
filed; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 

2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they 
given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, 
the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the 
earth. 

3 Their blood have they shed like water 
round about Jerusalem; and there was none to 
bury them. 

4 We are become a reproach to our neigh- 
bours, a scorn and derision to them that are 
round about us. 

5 How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for 
ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? 

6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that 
have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms 
that have not called upon thy name. 

7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid 
waste his dwellingplace. 

8 O remember not against us former in- 
iquities: let thy tender mercies speedily pre- 
vent us; for we are brought very low. 

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the 
glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge 
away our sins, for thy name's sake. 

10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where 
is their God? let him be known among the 
heathen in our sight by the revenging of the 
blood of thy servants which is shed. 

11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come be- 
fore thee; according to the greatness of thy 



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power preserve thou those that are appointed 
to die; 

12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold 
into their bosom their reproach, wherewith 
they have reproached thee, O Lord. 

13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture 
will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew 
forth thy praise to all generations. 



PSALM 80 

GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that 
leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that 
dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth. 

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manas- 
sch stir up thy strength, and come and save us. 

3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face 
to shine; and we shall be saved. 

4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou 
be angry against the prayer of thy people? 

5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; 
and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neigh- 
bours: and our enemies laugh among them- 
selves. 

7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause 
thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 

8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: 
thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 

9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst 
cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 

10 The hills were covered with the shadow 
of it, and the boughs thereof were like the 
goodly cedars. 

11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, 
and her branches unto the river. 

12 Why hast thou then broken down her 
hedges, so that all they which pass by the 
way do pluck her? 



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13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, 
and the wild beast of the field doth devour 
it. 

14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: 
look down from heaven, and behold, and visit 
this vine; 

15 And the vineyard which thy right hand 
hath planted, and the branch that thou madest 
strong for thyself. 

16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they 
( perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy 
right hand, upon the son of man whom thou 
madest strong for thyself. 

18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken 
us, and we will call upon thy name. 

19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, 
cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 



PSALM 81 

SING aloud unto God our strength: make a 
joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 

2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, 
the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 

3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in 
the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 

4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law 
of the God of Jacob. 

5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, 
when he went out through the land of Egypt: 
where I heard a language that I understood 
not. 

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: 
his hands were delivered from the pots. 

7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered 
thee: I answered thee in the secret place of 
thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meri- 
bah. Selah. 



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8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto 
thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 

9 There shall .no strange god be in thee; 
neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 

10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought 
thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth 
wide, and I will fill it. 

11 But my people would not hearken to my 
voice; and Israel would none of me. 

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' 
lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 

13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto 
me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 

14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, 
and turned my hand against their adversaries. 

15 The haters of the Lord should have sub- 
mitted themselves unto him: but their time 
should have endured for ever. 

16 He should have fed them also with the 
finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the 
rock should I have satisfied thee. 



Sixteenth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 82 

GOD standeth in the congregation of the 
mighty; he judgeth among the gods. 

2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and 
accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 

3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice 
to the afflicted and needy. 

4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out 
of the hand of the wicked. 

5 They know not, neither will they under- 
stand; they walk on in darkness: all the foun- 
dations of the earth are out of course. ■ 

6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you 
are children of the Most High. 



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7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one 
of the princes. 

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou 
shalt inherit all nations. 

PSALM 83 

KEEP not thou silence, O God: hold not 
thy peace, and be not still, O God. 

2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and 
they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 

3 They have taken crafty counsel against 
thy people, and consulted against thy hidden 
ones. 

4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them 
off from being a nation; that the name of 
Israel may be no more in remembrance. 

5 For they have consulted together with one 
consent: they are confederate against thee: 

6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ish- 
maelites; of Moab. and the Hagarenes; 

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Phil- 
istines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 

8 Assur also is joined with them: they have 
holpen the children of Lot. Selah. 

9 Do unto them as unto the Midiariites; as 
to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 

10 Which perished at En-dor: they became ' 
as dung for the earth. 

11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like 
Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as 
Zalmunna: 

12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the 
houses of God in possession. 

13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as 
the stubble before the wind. 

14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the 
flame setteth the mountains on fire; 



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15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and 
make them afraid with thy storm. 

16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may 
seek thy name, O Lord. 

17 Let them be confounded and troubled for 
ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: 

18 That men may know that thou, whose 
name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High 
over all the earth. 



PSALM 84 

HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord 
of hosts! 

2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the 
courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh 
crieth out for the living God. 

3 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and 
the swallow a nest for herself, where she may 
lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of 
hosts, my King, and my God. 

4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; 
they will be still praising thee. Selah. 

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in 
thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 

6 Who passing through the valley of Baca 
make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 

7 They go from strength to strength, every 
one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 

8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: 
give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 

9 Behold. O God our shield, and look upon 
the face of thine anointed. 

10 For a day in thy courts is better than a 
thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the 
house of my God, than to dwell in the tents 
of wickedness. 

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: 
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thing will he withhold from them that walk 
uprightly. 

12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that 
trusteth in thee. 

PSALM 85 

I ORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy 
■*-' land: thou hast brought back the captivity 
of Jacob. 

2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy 
people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. 

3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou 
hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine 
anger. 

4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause 
thine anger toward us to cease. 

5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt 
thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 

6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy 
people may rejoice in thee? 

7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us 
thy salvation. 

8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: 
for he will speak peace unto his people, and 
to his saints: but let them not turn again to 
folly. 

9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear 
him; that glory may dwell in our land. 

10 Mercy and truth are met together; right- 
eousness and peace have kissed each other. 

11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and 
righteousness shall look down from heaven. 

12 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is 
good; and our land shall yield her increase. 

13 Righteousness shall go before him; and 
shall set us in the way of his steps. 



B 



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Seventeenth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 86 

OW down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for 
I am poor and needy. 

2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou 
my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. 

3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry 
unto thee daily. 

4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto 
thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 

5 For thou. Lord, art good, and ready to 
forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them 
that call upon thee. 

6 Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and 
attend to the voice of ni}' supplications. 

7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon 
thee: for thou wilt answer me. 

8 Among the gods there is none like unto 
thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like 
unto thy works. 

9 All nations whom thou hast made shall 
come and worship before thee, O Lord; and 
shall glorify thy name. 

10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous 
things: thou art God alone. 

11 Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk 
in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name 

12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with 
all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for 
evermore. 

13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and 
thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest 
hell. 

14 O God, the proud are risen against me, 
and the assemblies of violent men have sought 
after my soul; and have not set thee before 
them. 

15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of com- 



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passion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plen- 
teous in mercy and truth. 

16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon 
me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and 
save the son of thine handmaid. 

17 Shew me a token for good; that they 
which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: 
because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and com- 
forted me. 

PSALM 87 

HIS foundation is in the holy mountains. 
2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more 
than all the dwellings of Jacob. 

3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city 
of God. Selah. 

4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon 
to them that know me: behold Philistia, and 
Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. 

5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that 
man was born in her: and the Highest himself 
shall establish her. 

6 The Lord shall count, when he writeth up 
the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 

7 As well the singers as the players on in- 
struments shall be there: all my springs are 
in thee. 

PSALM 88 

OLord God of my salvation, I have cried 
day and night before thee: 

2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline 
thine ear unto my cry; 

3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my 
life draweth nigh unto the grave. 

4 I am counted with them that go down into 
the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 

5 Free among the dead, like the slain that 



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lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no 
more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 

6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in 
darkness, in the deeps. 

7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou 
hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. 

8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far 
from me; thou hast made me an abomination 
unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come 
forth. , 

9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: 
Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have 
stretched out my hands unto thee. 

10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? 
shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 

11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in 
the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 

12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? 
and thy righteousness in the land of forgetful- 
ness? 

13 But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and 
in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. 

14 Lord, why casteth thou off my soul? why 
hidest thou thy face from me? 

15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my 
youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am dis- 
tracted. 

16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy 
terrors have cut me off. 

17 They came round about me daily like 
water; they compassed me about together. 

18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from 
me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. 



Seventeenth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 89 

T will sing of the mercies of the Lord for 
' ■*■ ever: with my mouth will I make known 
thy faithfulness to all generations. 



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2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up 
for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish 

' in the very heavens. 

3 T have made a covenant with my chosen, 
I have sworn unto David my servant, 

4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and 
build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. 

5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, 
O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congre- 
gation of the saints. 

6 For who in the heaven can be compared 
unto the Lord? who among the sons of the 
mighty can be likened unto the Lord? 

7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly 
of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all 
them that are about him. 

8 O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong 
Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness 
round about thee? 

9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when 
the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. 

10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as 
one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine 
enemies with thy strong arm. 

11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is 
thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, 
thou hast founded them. 

12 The north and the south thou hast created 
them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy 
name. 

13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy 
hand, and high is thy right hand. 

14 Justice and judgment are the habitation 
of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before 
thy face. 

15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful 
sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light 
of thy countenance. 



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16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the 
day: and in thy righteousness shall they be 
exalted. 

17 For thou art the glory of their strength: 
and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. 

18 For the Lord is our defence; and the 
Holy One of Israel is our King. 

19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy 
One, and saidst, 1 have laid help upon one that 
is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of 
the people. 

20 I have found David my servant; with 
my holy oil have I anointed him: 

21 With whom my hand shall be established: 
mine arm also shall strengthen him. 

22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor 
the son of wickedness afflict him. 

23 And I will beat down his foes before his 
face, and plague them that hate him. 

24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall 
be with him: and in my name shall his horn 
be exalted. 

25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and 
his right hand in the rivers. 

26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my 
Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. 

27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher 
than the kings of the earth. 

28 My mercy will I keep for him for ever- 
more, and my covenant shall stand fast with 
him. 

29 His seed also will I make to endure for 
ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 

30 If his children forsake my law, and walk 
not in my judgments; 

31 If they break my statutes, and keep not 
my commandments; 

32 Then will I visit their transgressions with 
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33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not 
utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithful- 
ness to fail. 

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter 
the thing that is gone out of my lips. 

35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that 
I will not lie unto David. 

36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his 
throne as the sun before me. 

37 It shall be established for ever as the 
moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. 
Selah. 

38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou 
hast been wroth with thine anointed. 

39 Thou hast made void the covenant of 
thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown 
by casting it to the ground. 

40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; 
thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. 

41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he 
is a reproach to his neighbours. 

42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his 
adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies 
to rejoice. 

43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his 
sword, and hast not made him to stand in the 
battle. 

44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and 
cast .his throne down to the ground. 

45 The days of his youth hast thou short- 
ened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. 

46 How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself 
for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? 

47 Remember how short my time is: where- 
fore hast thou made all men in vain? 

48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not 
see death? shall he deliver his soul from the 
hand of the grave? Selah. 

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nesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy 
truth? 

50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy 
servants; how I do bear in my bosom the 
reproach of all the mighty people; 

51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, 
O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the 
footsteps of thine anointed. 

52 Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, 
and Amen. 

Eighteenth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 90 

T ORD, thou hast been our dwellingplace in 
-'-' all generations. 

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, 
or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the 
world, even from everlasting to everlasting, 
thou art God. 

3 Thou turnest man to destruction: and 
sayest, Return, ye children of men. 

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but 
as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch 
in the night. 

5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; 
they are as a sleep: in the morning they are 
like grass which growetK up. 

6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth 
up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and 
by thy wrath are we troubled. 

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, 
our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 

9 For all our days are passed awy in thy 
wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is 
told. 

10 The days of our years are threescore years 
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fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and 
sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 

11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? 
even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 

12 So teach us to number our days, that we 
may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

13 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it 
repent thee concerning thy servants. 

14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that 
we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 

15 Make us glad according to the days where- 
in thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein 
we have seen evil. 

16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, 
and thy glory unto their children. 

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God 
be upon us: and establish thou the work of 
our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands 
establish thou it. 

PSALM 91 

XX E that dwelleth in the secret place of the 
•*-•*■ Most High shall abide under the shadow 
of the Almighty. 

2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge 
and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 

3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare 
of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and 
under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall 
be thy shield and buckler. 

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by 
night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 

6 Xor for the pestilence that walketh in 
darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth 
at noonday. 

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten 
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not 
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8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold 
and see the reward of the wicked. 

9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which 
is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habita- 
tion; 

10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither 
shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 

11 For he shall give his angels charge over 
thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 

12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, 
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: 
the young lion and the dragon shalt thou 
trample under feet. 

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, 
therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on 
high, because he hath known my name. 

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer 
him: I will be with him in trouble; I will 
deliver him, and honour him. 

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and 
shew him my salvation. 

PSALM 92 

IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the 
Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, 
O Most High: 

2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the 
morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 

3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and 
upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn 
sound. 

4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through 
thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy 
hands. 

5 O Lord, how great are thy works! and 
thy thoughts are very deep. 

6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth 
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7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and 
when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; 
it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: 

8 But thou, Lord, art most high for ever- 
more. 

9 For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, 
thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of 
iniquity shall be scattered. 

10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the 
horn of a unicorn: I shall be anointed with 
fresh oil. 

11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine 
enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire 
of the wicked that rise up against me. 

12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm 
tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 

13 Those that be planted in the house of the 
Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. 

14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old 
age: they shall be fat and flourishing; 

15 To shew that the Lord is upright: he is 
my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in 
him. 

Eighteenth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 93 

P HE Lord reigneth, he is clothed with maj- 
* esty; the Lord is clothed with strength, 
wherewith he hath girded himself: the world 
also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. 

2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art 
from everlasting. 

3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the 
floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift 
up their waves. 

4 The Lord on high is mightier than the 
noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty 
w r aves of the sea. 

5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness 
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PSALM 94 

OLord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; 
O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, 
shew thyself. 

2 Lift up thyself, thou Judge of the earth: 
render a reward to the proud. 

3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long 
shall the wicked triumph? 

4 How long shall they utter and speak hard 
things? and all the workers of iniquity boast 
themselves? 

5 They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, 
and afflict thine heritage. 

6 They slay the widow and the stranger, 
and murder the fatherless. 

7 Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, 
neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. 

8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: 
and ye fools, when will ye be wise? 

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? 
he that formed the eye, shall he not see? 

10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not 
he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, 
shall not he know? 

11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, 
that they are vanity. 

12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, 
O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law; 

13 That thou mayest give him rest from the 
days of adversity, until the pit be digged for 
the wicked. 

14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, 
neither will he forsake his inheritance. 

15 But judgment shall return unto righteous- 
ness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. 

16 Who will rise up for me against the evil 
doers? or who will stand up for me against the 
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17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my 
soul had almost dwelt in silence. 

18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, 
O Lord, held me up. 

19 In the multitude of my thoughts within 
me th}^ comforts delight my soul. 

20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellow- 
ship with thee, which frameth mischief by a 
law? 

21 They gather themselves together against 
the soul of the righteous, and condemn the 
innocent blood. 

22 But the Lord is my defence; and my God 
is the rock of my refuge. 

23 And he shall bring upon them their own 
iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own 
wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut 
them off. 

Nineteenth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 95 

Ocome, let us sing unto the Lord: let us 
make a joyful noise to the Rock of our 
salvation. 

2 Let us come before his presence with 
thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto 
him with psalms. 

3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great 
King above all gods. 

4 In his hand are the deep places of the 
earth: the strength of the hills is his also. 

5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his 
hands formed the dry land. 

6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let 
us kneel before the Lord our maker. 

7 For he is our God; and we are the people 
of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To 
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8 Harden not your heart, as in the provoca- 
tion, and as in the day of temptation in the 
wilderness. 

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, 
and saw my work. 

10 Forty years long was I grieved with this 
generation, and said, It is a people that do 
err in their heart, and they have not known my 
ways: 

11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that 
they should not enter into my rest. 

PSALM 96 

|j sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto 
^^ the Lord, all the earth. 

2 Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew 
forth his salvation from day to day. 

3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his 
wonders among all people. 

4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be 
praised: he is to be feared above all gods. 

5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: 
but the Lord made the heavens. 

6 Honour and majesty are before him: 
strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. 

7 Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the 
people, give unto the Lord glory and strength. 

8 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his 
name: bring an offering, and come into his 
courts. 

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holi- 
ness: fear before him, all the earth. 

10 Say among the heathen that the Lord 
reigneth: the world also shall be established 
that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the 
people righteously. 

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth 
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12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is 
therein: then shall all the trees of the wood 
rejoice 

13 Before the Lord: for he cometh, for he 
cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the 
world with righteousness, and the people with 
his truth. 



PSALM 97 

THE Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; 
let the multitude of isles be glad thereof. 

2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: 
righteousness and judgment are the habitation 
of his throne. 

3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up 
his enemies round about. 

4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the 
earth saw, and trembled. 

5 The hills melted like wax at the presence 
of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of 
the whole earth. 

6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and 
all the people see his glory. 

7 Confounded be all they that serve graven 
images, that boast themselves of idols: worship 
him, all ye gods. 

8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daugh- 
ters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judg- 
ments, O Lord. 

9 For thou, Lord, art high above all the 
earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. 

10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he pre- 
serveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth 
them out of the hand of the wicked. 

11 Light is sown for the righteous, and glad- 
ness for the upright in heart 

12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and 
give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 



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Nineteenth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 98 

Osing unto the Lord a new song; for he 
hath done marvellous things: his right 
hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the 
victory. 

2 The Lord hath made known his salvation: 
his righteousness hath he openly shewed in 
the sight of the heathen. 

3 He hath remembered his mercy and his 
truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends 
of the earth have seen the salvation of our 
God. 

4 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all 
the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and 
sing praise. 

5 Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with 
the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 

6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make 
a jo}rful noise before the Lord, the King. 

7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; 
the world, and they that dwell therein. 

8 Lete the floods clap their hands: let the 
hills be joyful together 

9 Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge 
the earth: with righteousness shall he judge 
the world, and the people with equity. 

PSALM 99 
T^HE Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: 
•*■ he sitteth between the cherubim: let the 
earth be moved. 

2 The Lord is great in Zion; and he is high 
above all the people. 

3 Let them praise thy great and terrible 
name; for it is holy. 

4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; 
thou dost establish equity, thou executest judg- 
ment and righteousness in Jacob. 



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5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship 
at his footstool; for he is holy. 

6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and 
Samuel among them that call upon his name; 
they called upon the Lord, and he answered 
them. 

7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: 
they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance 
that he gave them. 

8 Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: 
thou wast a God that forgavest them, though 
thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. 

9 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at 
his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy. 

PSALM 100 

MAKE a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye 
lands. 

2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before 
his presence with singing. 

3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is 
he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; 
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and 
into his courts with praise: be thankful unto 
him, and bless his name. 

5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is ever- 
lasting; and his truth endureth to all genera- 
tions. 

PSALM 101 

I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto 
thee, O Lord, will I sing. 

2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect 
way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will 
walk within my house with a perfect heart. 

3 1 will set no wicked thing before mine 
eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; 
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4 A f reward heart shall depart from me: I 
will not know a wicked person. 

5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, 
him will I cut off: him that hath a high look 
and a proud heart will not I suffer. 

6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the 
land, that they may dwell with me: he that 
walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 

7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell 
within my house: he that telleth lies shall not 
tarry in my sight. 

8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the 
land; that 1 may cut off all wicked doers from 
the city of the Lord. 

Twentieth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 102 

T-J EAR my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry 
■■■ -*■ come unto thee. 

2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when 
I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in 
the day when 1 call answer me speedily. 

3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and 
my bones are burned as a hearth. 

4 My heart is smitten, and withered like 
grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 

5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my 
bones cleave to my skin. 

6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am 
like an owl of the desert. 

7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon 
the housetop. 

8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; 
and they that are mad against me are sworn 
against me. 

9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and 
mingled my drink with weeping, 

10 Because of thine indignation and thy 



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wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast 
me down. 

11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; 
and I am withered like grass. 

12 But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; 
and thy remembrance unto all generations. 

13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon 
Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set 
time, is come. 

14 For thy servants take pleasure in her 
stones, and favour the dust thereof. 

15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the 
Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. 

16 When the Lord shall build up Zion, he 
shall appear in his glory. 

17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, 
and not despise their prayer. 

18 This shall be written for the generation to 
come: and the people which shall be created 
shall praise the Lord. 

19 For he hath looked down from the height 
of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord 
behold the earth; 

20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to 
loose those that are appointed to death; 

21 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, 
and his praise in Jerusalem; 

22 When the people are gathered together, 
and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord. 

23 He weakened my strength in the way; 
he shortened my days. 

24 I said, O my God, take me not away in 
the midst of my days: thy years are through- 
out all generations. 

25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of 
the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy 
hands. 

26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: 
yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; 



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as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they 
shall be changed: 

27 But thou art the same, and thy years 
shall have no end. 

28 The children of thy servants shall con- 
tinue, and their seed shall be established be- 
fore thee. 

PSALM 103 

"DLESS the Lord, O my soul: and all that is 
*-* within me, bless his holy name. 

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not 
all his benefits: 

3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who 
healeth all thy diseases; 

4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; 
who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and 
tender mercies; 

5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good 
things; so that thy youth is renewed like the 
eagle's. 

6 The Lord executeth righteousness and 
judgment for all that are oppressed. 

7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his 
acts unto the children of Israel. 

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow 
to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 

9 He will not always chide: neither will he 
keep his anger for ever. 

10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; 
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 

11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, 
so great is his mercy toward them that fear 
him. 

12 As far as the east is from the west, so 
far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 

13 Like as a father pitieth his "children, so 
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14 For he knoweth our frame; he remem- 
bereth that we are dust. 

15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a 
flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 

16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is 
gone; and the place thereof shall know it no 
more. 

17 But the mercy of the Lord is from ever- 
lasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, 
and his righteousness unto children's children. 

18 To such as keep his covenant, and to 
those that remember his commandments to do 
them. 

19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the 
heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. 

20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel 
in strength, that do his commandments, heark- 
ening unto the voice of his word. 

21 Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye 
ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 

22 Bless the Lord, all his works in all places 
of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul. 



Twentieth Day. Evening. 
PSALM 104 

QLESS the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my 
■■-' God, thou art very great; thou art clothed 
with honour and majesty: 

2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a 
garment: who stretchest out the heavens like 
a curtain : 

3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers 
in the waters: who maketh the clouds his 
chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the 
wind : 

4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his minis- 
ters a flaming fire: 



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5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that 
it should not be removed for ever. 

6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a 
garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 

7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of 
thy thunder they hasted away. 

8 They go up by the mountains; they go 
down by the valleys unto the place which thou 
hast founded for them. 

9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not 
pass over; that they turn not again to cover 
the earth. 

10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, 
which run among the hills. 

11 They give drink to every beast of the 
field; the wild asses quench their thirst. 

12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven 
have their habitation, which sing among the 
branches. 

13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: 
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. 

14 He causeth the grass to grow for the 
cattle, and herb for the service of man: that 
he may bring forth food out of the earth; 

15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of 
man, and oil to make his face to shine, and 
bread which strengtheneth man's heart. 

16 The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the 
cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 

17 Where the birds make their nests: as for 
the stork, the fir trees are her house. 

18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild 
goats; and the rocks for the conies. 

19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the 
sun knoweth his going down. 

20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: 
wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep 
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21 The young lions roar after their prey, and 
seek their meat from God. 

22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves 
together, and lay them down in their dens. 

23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to 
his labour until the evening. 

24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works! 
in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth 
is full of thy riches. 

25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are 
things creeping innumerable, both small and 
great beasts. 

26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, 
whom thou hast made to play therein. 

27 These wait all upon thee; that thou may- 
est give them their meat in due season. 

28 That thou givest them they gather: thou 
openest thine hand, they are filled with good. 

29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: 
thou takest away their breath, they die, and 
return to dust. 

30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are 
created: and thou renewest the face of the 
earth. 

31 The glory of the Lord shall endure for 
ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works. 

32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: 
he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. 

33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I 
live: I will sing praise to my God while I have 
my being. 

34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I 
will be glad in the Lord. 

35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the 
earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless 
thou the Lord. O my soul. Praise ye the Lord. 



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Twenty- First Day. Morning. 

PSALM 105 
give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his 
name: make known his deeds among the 
people. 

2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk 
ye of all his wondrous works. 

3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart 
of them rejoice that seek the Lord. 

4 Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his 
face evermore. 

5 Remember his marvellous works that he 
hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of 
his mouth; 

6 O.ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye chil- 
dren of Jacob his chosen. 

7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments 
are in all the earth. 

8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, 
the word which he commanded to a thousand 
generations. 

9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, 
and his oath unto Isaac; 

10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a 
law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: 

11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of 
Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: 

12 When they were but a few men in num- 
ber; yea, very few, and strangers in it. 

13 When they went from one nation to 
another, from one kingdom to another people; 

14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: 
yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; 

15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do 
my prophets no harm. 

16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the 
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17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, 
who was sold for a servant: 

18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he 
was laid in iron: 

19 Until the time that his word came: the 
word of the Lord tried him. 

20 The king sent and loosed him; even the 
ruler of the people, and let him go free. 

21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler 
of all his substance: 

22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and 
teach his senators wisdom. 

23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob 
sojourned in the land of Ham. 

24 And he increased his people greatly; and 
made them stronger than their enemies. 

25 He turned their heart to hate his people, 
to deal subtilely with his servants. 

26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron 
whom he had chosen. 

27 They shewed him signs among them, and 
wonders in the land of Ham. 

28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and 
they rebelled not against his word. 

29 He turned their waters into blood, and 
slew their fish. 

30 Their land brought forth frogs in abun- 
dance, in the chambers of their kings. 

31 He spake, and their came divers sorts of 
flies, and lice in all their coasts. 

32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming 
fire in their land. 

33 He smote their vines also and their fig 
trees; and brake the trees of their coasts. 

34 He spake, and the locusts came, and cater- 
pillars, and that without number, 

35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, 
and devoured the fruit of their ground. 



THE PSALTER 397 

36 He smote also all the first born in their 
land, the chief of all their strength. 

37 He brought them forth also with silver 
and gold: and there was not one feeble person 
among their tribes. 

38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for 
the fear of them fell upon them. 

39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and 
fire to give light in the night. 

40 The people asked, and he brought quails, 
and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. 

41 He opened the rock, and the waters, 
gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a 
river. 

42 For he remembered his holy promise, and 
Abraham his servant. 

43 And he brought forth his people with joy, 
and his chosen with gladness: 

44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: 
and they inherited the labour of the people; 

45 That they might observe his statutes, and 
keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord. 



Twenty-First Day. Evening. 
PSALM 106 

PRAISE ye the Lord. O give thanks unto 
the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy 
endureth for ever. 

2 Who can utter the mighty acts _ of the 
Lord? who can shew forth all his praise? 

3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and 
he that doeth righteousness at all times. 

4 Remember me, O Lord, with the favour 
that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me 
with thy salvation; 

5 That I may see the good of th}^ chosen, 
that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, 
that I- may glory with thine inheritance. 



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6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have 
committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 

7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in 
Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of 
thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even 
at the Red sea. 

8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's 
sake, that he might make his mighty power to 
be known. 

9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was 
dried up: so he led them, through the depths, 
as through the wilderness. 

10 And he saved them from the land of him 
that hated them, and redeemed them from the 
hand of the enemy. 

11 And the waters covered their enemies: 
there was not one of then! left. 

12 Then believed they his words; they sang 
his praise. 

13 They soon forgat his works; they waited 
not for his counsel: 

14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness 
and tempted God in the desert. 

15 And he gave them their request; but sent 
leanness into their soul. 

16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and 
Aaron the saint of the Lord. 

17 The earth opened and swallowed up 
Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. 

18 And a fire was kindled in their company; 
the flame burned up the wicked. 

19 They made a calf in Horeb, and wor- 
shipped the molten image. 

20 Thus they changed their glory into the 
similitude of an ox that eateth grass. 

21 They forgat God their Saviour, which had 
done great things in Egypt; 

22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and 
terrible things by the Red sea. 



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23 Therefore he said that he would destroy 
them, had not Moses his chosen stood before 
him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest 
he should destroy them. 

24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they 
believed not his word: 

25 But murmured in their tents, and heark- 
ened not unto the voice of the Lord. 

26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against 
them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: 

27 To overthrow their seed also among the 
nations, and to scatter them in the lands. 

28 They joined themselves also unto Baal- 
peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 

29 Thus they provoked him to anger with 
their inventions: and the plague brake in upon 
them. 

30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed 
judgment: and so the plague was stayed. 

31 And that was counted unto him for right- 
eousness unto all generations for evermore. 

32 They angered him also at the waters of 
strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their 
sakes: 

33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that 
he spake unadvisedly with his lips. 

34 They did not destroy the nations, con- 
cerning whom the Lord commanded them: 

35 But were mingled among the heathen, and 
learned their works. 

36 And they served their idols: which were 
a snare unto them. 

37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their 
daughters unto devils, 

38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood 
of their sons and of their daughters, whom they 
sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the 
land was polluted with blood. 

39 Thus were they defiled with their own 



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works, and went a whoring with their own 
inventions. 

40 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord 
kindled against his people, insomuch that he 
abhorred his own inheritance. 

41 And he gave them into the hand of the 
heathen; and they that hated them ruled over 
them. 

42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and 
they were brought into subjection under their 
hand. 

43 Many times did he deliver them; but they 
provoked him with their counsel, and were 
brought low for their iniquity. 

44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, 
when he heard their cry: 

45 And he remembered for them his coven- 
ant, and repented according to the multitude 
of his mercies. 

46 He made them also to be pitied of all 
those that carried them captives. 

47 vSave us, O Lord our God, and gather us 
from among the heathen, to give thanks unto 
thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. 

48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from 
everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people 
say, Amen. Praise ye the Lord. 

Twenty-Second Day. Morning. 

PSALM 107 

OGIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is 
good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, 
whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the 
enemy; 

3 And gathered them out of the lands, from 
the east, and from the west, from the north, 
and from the south. 



THE PSALTER 



4 They wandered in the wilderness in a 
; solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. 

5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in 
them. 

6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their 
trouble, and he delivered them out of their 

distresses. 

7 And he led them forth by the right way, 
that they might go to a city of habitation. 

8 Oh that men would praise the Lord for 
his goodness, and for his wonderful works to 
the children of men! 

9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and 
filleth the hungry soul with goodness. 

10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow 
of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 

11 Because they rebelled against the words 
of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most 
High: 

12 Therefore he brought down their heart 
with labour; they fell down, and there was 
none to help. 

13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their 
trouble, and he saved them out of their dis- 
tresses. 

14 He brought them out of darkness and 
the shadow of death, and brake their bands 
in sunder. 

15 Oh that men would praise the Lord for 
his goodness, and for his wonderful works to 
the children of men! 

16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, 
and cut the bars of iron in sunder. 

17 Fools, because of their transgression, and 
because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 

18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; 
and they draw near unto the gates of death. 

19 Then they cry unto the Lord in their 



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trouble, and he saveth them out of their dis- 
tresses. 

20 He sent his word, and healed them, and 
delivered them from their destructions. 

21 Oh that men would praise the Lord for 
his goodness, and for his wonderful works to 
the children of men! 

22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of 
thanksgiving, and declare his works with re- 
joicing. 

23 They that go down to the sea in ships, 
that do business in great waters; 

24 These see the works of the Lord, and his 
wonders in the deep. 

25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the 
stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves 
thereof. 

26 They mount up to the heaven, they go 
down again to the depths: their soul is melted 
because of trouble. 

27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a 
drunken man, and are at their wit's end. 

28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their 
trouble, and he bringeth them out of their dis- 
tresses. 

29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the 
waves thereof are still. 

30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; 
so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. 

31 Oh that men would praise the Lord for 
his goodness, and for his wonderful works to 
the children of men! 

32 Let them exalt him also in the congre- 
gation of the people, and praise him in the 
assembly of the elders. 

33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and 
the watersprings into dry ground; 

34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the 
wickedness of them that dwell therein. 



THE PSALTER 403 

35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing 
water, and dry ground into watersprings. 

36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, 
that they may prepare a city for habitation; 

37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, 
which may yield fruits of increase. 

38 He blesseth them also, so that they are 
multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle 
to decrease. 

39 Again, they are minished and brought 
low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. 

40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and 
causeth them to wander in the wilderness, 
where there is no way. 

41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from 
affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. 

42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: 
and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 

43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these 
things, even they shall understand the loving- 
kindness of the Lord. 



Twenty-Second Day. Evening. 

PSALM 108 

OGod, my heart is fixed; I will sing and 
give praise, even with my glory. 

2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will 
awake early. 

3 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the 
people: and I will sing praises unto thee among 
the nations. 

4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: 
and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. 

5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heav- 
ens: and thy glory above all the earth; 

6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save 
with thy right hand, and answer me. 



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7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will 
rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out 
the valley of Succoth. 

8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim 
also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my 
lawgiver; 

9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I 
cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph. 

10 Who will bring me into the strong city? 
who will lead me into Edom? 

11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us 
off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with 
our hosts? 

12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the 
help of man. 

13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for 
he it is that shall tread down our enemies. 

PSALM 109 

T-j OLD not thy peace, O God of my praise; 
■*■■*■ 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the 
mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: 
they have spoken against me with a lying 
tongue. 

3 They compassed me about also with words 
of hatred; and fought against me without a 
cause. 

4 For my love they are my adversaries: but 
I p-ive myself unto prayer. 

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, 
and hatred for my love. 

6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let 
Satan stand at his right hand. 

7 When he shall be judged, let him be con- 
demned: and let his prayer become sin. 

8 Let his days be few; and let another take 
his office 

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife 
a widow. 



THE PSALTER 405 

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, 
and beg: let them seek their bread also out of 
their desolate places. 

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; 
and let the strangers spoil his labour. 

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto 
him: neither let there be any to favour his 
fatherless children. 

13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the 
generation following let their name be blotted 
out. 

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remem- 
bered with the Lord; and let not the sin of 
his mother be blotted out. 

15 Let them be before the Lord continually, 
that he may cut off the memory of them from 
the earth. 

16 Because that he remembered not to shew 
mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, 
that he might even slay the broken in heart. 

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto 
him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it 
be far from him. 

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like 
as with his garment, so let it come into his 
bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which 
covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is 
girded continually. 

20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries 
from the Lord, and of them that speak evil 
against my soul. 

21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for 
thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, 
deliver thou me. 

22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart 
is wounded within me. 

23 I am gone like the shadow when it de- 
clineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. 



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24 My knees are weak through fasting; and 
my flesh faileth of fatness. 

25 I became also a reproach unto them: 
when they looked upon me they shaked their 
heads. 

26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me 
according to thy mercy: 

27 That they may know that this is thy 
hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it. 

28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when 
they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy 
servant rejoice. 

29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with 
shame; and let them cover themselves with 
their own confusion, as with a mantle. 

30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my 
mouth; yea, I will praise him among the mul- 
titude. 

31 For he shall stand at the right hand of 
the poor, to save him from those that condemn 
his soul. 



Twenty-Third Day. Morning. 

PSALM 110 

J HE Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at 
■*■ my right hand, until I make thine enemies 
thy footstool. 

2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy 
strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of 
thine enemies. 

3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of 
thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the 
womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of 
thy youth. 

4 The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, 
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of 
Melchizedek. 



THE PSALTER 407 

5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike 
through kings in the day of his wrath. 

6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall 
fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall 
wound the heads over many countries. 

7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: 
therefore shall he lift up the head. 



PSALM 111 

O RAISE ye the Lord. I will praise the 
* Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly 
of the upright, and in the congregation. 

2 The works of the Lord are great, sought 
out of all them that have pleasure therein. 

3 His work is honourable and glorious: and 
his righteousness endureth for ever. 

4 He hath made his wonderful works to be 
remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of 
compassion. 

5 He hath given meat unto them that fear 
him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant. 

6 He hath shewed his people the power of 
his works, that he may give them the heritage 
of the heathen. 

7 The works of his hands are verity and 
judgment; all his commandments are sure. 

8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are 
done in truth and uprightness. 

9 He sent redemption unto his people: he 
hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy 
and reverend is his name. 

10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of 
wisdom: a good understanding have all they 
that do his commandments: his praise endureth 
for ever. 



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PSALM 112 

P RAISE ye the Lord. Blessed. is the man 
x that feareth the Lord, that delighteth 
greatly in his commandments. 

2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the 
generation of the upright shall be blessed. 

3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: 
and his righteousness endureth for ever. 

4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the 
darkness: he is gracious, and full of compas- 
sion, and righteous. 

5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: 
he will guide his affairs with discretion. 

6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the 
righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 

7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his 
heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. 

8 His heart is established, he shall not be 
afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies. 

9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the 
poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his 
horn shall be exalted with honour. 

10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; 
he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: 
the desire of the wicked shall perish. 

PSALM 113 

P RAISE ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants 
4- of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. 

2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this 
time forth and for evermore. 

3 From the rising of the sun unto the going 
down of the same the Lord's name is to be 
praised. 

4 The Lord is high above all nations, and 
his glory above the heavens. 

5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, who 
dwelleth on high, 



THE PSALTER 



6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things 
that are in heaven, and in the earth! 

7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and 
lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; 

8 That he may set him with princes, even 
with the princes of his people. 

9 He maketh the barren woman to keep 
house, and to be a joyful mother of children. 
Praise ye the Lord. 



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Twenty-Third Day. Evening. 

PSALM 114 

HEN Israel went out of Egypt, the house 
of Jacob from a people of strange lan- 
guage; 

2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his 
dominion. 

3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven 
back. 

4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the 
little hills like lambs. 

5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou 
fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven 
back? 

6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; 
and ye little hills like lambs? 

7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of 
the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 

8 Which turned the rock into a standing 
water, the flint into a fountain of waters. 

PSALM 115 

NOT unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto 
thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and 
for thy truth's sake. 

2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where 
is now their God? 



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3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath 
done whatsoever he hath pleased. 

4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work 
of men's hands. 

5 They have mouths, but they speak not: 
eyes have they, but they see not: 

6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses 
have they, but they smell not: 

7 They have hands, but they handle not: 
feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak 
they through their throat. 

8 They that make them are like unto them; 
so is every one that trusteth in them. 

9 O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is 
their help and their shield. 

10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he 
is their help and their shield. 

11 Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: 
he is their help and their shield. 

12 The Lord hath been mindful of us: he 
will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; 
he will bless the house of Aaron. 

13 He will bless them that fear the Lord, 
both small and great. 

14 The Lord shall increase you more and 
more, you and your children. 

15 Ye are blessed of the Lord which made 
heaven and earth. 

16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the 
Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the 
children of men. 

17 The dead praise not the Lord, neither 
any that go down into silence. 

18 But we will bless the Lord from this time 
forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord. 



THE PSALTER 



Twenty-Fourth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 116 
T love the Lord, because he hath heard my 
■*■ voice and my supplications. 

2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, 
therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 

3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and 
the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found 
trouble and sorrow. 

4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord; 
O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 

5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, 
our God is merciful. 

6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was 
brought low, and he helped me. 

7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the 
Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. 

8 For thou hast delivered my soul from 
death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from 
falling. 

9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of 
the living. 

10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was 
greatly afflicted: 

11 I said in my haste, All men are liars. 

12 What shall I render unto the Lord for 
all his benefits toward me? 

13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call 
upon the name of the Lord. 

14 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now 
in the presence of all his people. 

15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the 
death of his saints. 

16 O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am 
they servant, and the son of thine handmaid: 
thou hast loosed my bonds. 



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17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanks- 
giving, and will call upon the name of the Lord. 

18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now 
in the presence of all his people, 

19 In the courts of the Lord's house, in the 
midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord. 

PSALM 117 

praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, 
all ye people. 
2 For his merciful kindness is great toward 
us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for 
ever. Praise ye the Lord. 

PSALM 118 

Ogive thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: 
because his mercy endureth for ever. 

2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endur- 
eth for ever. 

3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his 
mercy endureth for ever. 

4 Let them now that fear the Lord say, that 
his mercy endureth for ever. 

5 I called upon the Lord in distress: the 
Lord answered me, and set me in a large place. 

6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: 
what can man do unto me? 

7 The Lord taketh my part with them that 
help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon 
them that hate me. 

8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to 
put confidence in man. 

9 It is better to trust in the Lord than to 
put confidence in princes. 

10 All nations compassed me about: but in 
the name of the Lord will I destroy them. 



THE PSALTER 413 

11 They compassed me about; yea, they 
compassed me about: but in the name of the 
Lord I will destroy them. 

12 They compassed me about like bees; they 
are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the 
name of the Lord I will destroy them. 

13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might 
fall: but the Lord helped me. 

14 The Lord is my strength and song, and 
is become my salvation. 

15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in 
the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand 
of the Lord doeth valiantly. 

16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted: 
the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly. 

17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the 
works of the Lord. 

18 The Lord hath chastened me sore: but 
he hath not given me over unto death. 

19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: 
I will go into them, and I will praise the 
Lord : 

20 This gate of the Lord, into which the 
righteous shall enter. 

21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard 
me, and art become my salvation. 

22 The stone which the builders refused is 
become the head stone of the corner. 

23 This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous 
in our eyes. 

24 This is the day which the Lord hath 
made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 

25 Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O 
Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. 

26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name 
of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the 
house of the Lord. 

27 God is the Lord, which hath shewed us 



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light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto 
the horns of the altar. 

28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: 
thou art my God, I will exalt thee. 

29 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is 
gocd: for his mercy endureth for ever. 



Twenty-Fourth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 119 

Aleph 

BLESSED are the undefiled in the way, who 
walk in the law of the Lord. 

2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, 
and that seek him with the whole heart. 

3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in 
his ways. 

4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy pre- 
cepts diligently. 

5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy 
statutes! 

6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have 
respect unto all thy commandments. 

7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, 
when I shall have learned thy righteous judg- 
ments. 

8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not 
utterly. 

Beth 

9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse 
his way? by taking heed thereto according to 
thy word. 

10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: 

let me not wander from thy commandments. 

11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that 

1 might not sin against thee. 

12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy 
statutes. 






THE PSALTER 415 

13 With my lips have I declared all the 
judgments of thy mouth. 

14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testi- 
monies, as much as in all riches. 

15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have 
respect unto thy ways. 

16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I 
will not forget thy word. 

Gimel 

17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I 
may live, and keep thy word. 

18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold 
wondrous things out of thy law. 

19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not 
thy commandments from me. 

20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it 
hath unto thy judgments at all times. 

21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are 
cursed, which do err from thy commandments. 

22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; 
for I have kept thy testimonies. 

23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: 
but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. 

24 Thy testimonies also are my delight, and 
my counsellors. 

Daleth 

25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken 
thou me according to thy word. 

26 I have declared my ways, and thou heard- 
est me: teach me thy statutes. 

27 Make me to understand the way of thy 
precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. 

28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen 
thou me according unto thy word. 

29 Remove from me the way of lying: and 
grant me thy law graciously. 

30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judg- 
ments have I laid before me. 



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31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O 
Lord, put me not to shame. 

32 I will run the way of thy commandments, 
when thou shalt enlarge my heart. 

He 

33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy stat- 
utes; and I shall keep it unto the end. 

34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep 
thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole 
heart. 

35 Make me to go in the path of thy com- 
mandments; for therein do I delight. 

36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, 
and not to covetousness. 

37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding 
vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. 

38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who 
is devoted to thy fear. 

39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for 
thy judgments are good. 

40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: 
quicken me in thy righteousness. 

Twenty-Fifth Day. Morning. 

Vau 

41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O 
Lord, even thy. salvation, according to thy 
word. 

42 So shall I have wherewith to answer 
him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy 
word. 

43 And take not the word of truth utterly 
out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy 
judgments. 

44 So shall I keep thy law continually for 
ever and ever. 

45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek 
thy precepts. 






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46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before 
kings, and will not be ashamed. 

47 And I will delight myself in thy com- 
mandments, which I have loved. 

48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy 
commandments, which I have loved; and I 
will meditate in thy statutes. 

Zain 

49 Remember the word unto thy servant, 
upon which thou hast caused me to hope. 

50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for 
thy word hath quickened me. 

51 The proud have had me greatly in de- 
rision: yet have I not declined from thy law. 

52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O 
Lord; and have comforted myself. 

53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because 
of the wicked that forsake thy law. 

54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the 
house of my pilgrimage. 

55 T have remembered thy name, O Lord, in 
the night, and have kept thy law. 

56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. 

Cheth 

57 Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have 
said that I would keep thy words. 

58 I entreated thy favour with my whole 
heart: be merciful unto me according to thy 
word. 

59 I thought on my ways, and turned my 
feet unto thy testimonies. 

60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep 
thy commandments. 

61 The bands of the wicked have robbed 
me: but I have not forgotten thy law. 

62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks 
unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. 



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63 I am a companion of all them that fear 
thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. 

64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: 
teach me thy statutes. 

Teth 

65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O 
Lord, according unto thy word. 

66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: 
for I have believed thy commandments. 

67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but I 
now have I kept thy word. 

68 Thou art good, and doest good: teach me 
thy statutes. 

69 The proud have forged a lie against me: 
but I will keep thy precepts with my whole I 
heart. 

70 Their heart is as fat as grease: but I 
delight in thy law. 

71 It is good for me that I have been afflict- 
ed; that I might learn thy statutes. 

72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me 
than thousands of gold and silver. 

Jod 

73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned 
me: give me understanding, that I may learn I 
thy commandments. 

74 They that fear thee will be glad when they ! 
see me; because I have hoped in thy word. 

75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are 
right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted ! 
me. 

76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be 
for my comfort, according to thy word unto 
thy servant. 

77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, 
that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 

78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt 



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perversely with me without a cause: but I will' 
meditate in thy precepts. 

79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, 
and those that have known thy testimonies. 

80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; 
that I be not ashamed. 



Twenty-Fifth Day. Evening. 

Caph 

81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation : but I 
hope in thy word. 

82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When 
wilt thou comfort me? 

83 For I am become like a bottle in the 
smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. 

84 How many are the days of thy servant? 
when wilt thou execute judgement on them that 
persecute me? 

85 The proud have digged pits for me, which 
are not after thy law. 

86 All thy commandments are faithful: they 
persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. 

87 They have almost consumed me upon 
earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. 

88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so 
shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. 

Lamed 

89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in 
heaven. 

90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: 
' thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. 

91 They continue this day according to thine 
ordinances: for all are thy servants. 

92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I 
should then have perished in mine affliction. 

93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with 
them thou hast quickened me. 



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94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought 
thy precepts. 

95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy 
me: but I will consider thy testimonies. 

96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but 
thy commandment is exceeding broad. 

Mem 

97 O how love I thy law! it is my medita- 
tion all the day. 

98 Thou through thy commandments hast 
made me wiser than mine enemies: for they 
are ever with me. 

99 I have more understanding than all my 
teachers: for thy testimonies are my medita- 
tion. 

100 I understand more than the ancients, 
because I keep thy precepts. 

101 I have refrained my feet from every evil 
way, that I might keep thy word. 

102 I have not departed from thy judgments: 
for thou hast taught me. 

103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! 
yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. 

104 Through thy precepts I get understand- 
ing: therefore I hate every false way. 

Twenty-Sixth Day. Morning. 

Nun 

105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a 
light unto my path. 

106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that 
I will keep thy righteous judgments. 

107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, 
O Lord, according unto thy word. 

108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offer- 
ings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy 
judgments. 



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109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet 
do I not forget thy law. 

110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: 
yet I erred not from thy precepts. 

111 Thy testimonies have I taken as a heri- 
tage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my 
heart. 

112 I have inclined mine heart to perform 
thy statutes always, even unto the end. 

Samech 

113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I 
love. 

114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: 
I hope in thy word. 

115 Depart from me, ye evil doers: for I will 
keep the commandments of my God. 

116 Uphold me according unto thy word, 
that I may live: and let me not be ashamed 
of my hope. 

117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: 
and I will have respect unto thy statutes con- 
tinually. 

118 Thou hast trodden down all them that 
err from thy statutes: for their deceit is false- 
hood. 

119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the 
earth like dross: therefore I love thy testi- 
monies. 

120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and 
I am afraid of thy judgments. 

Ain 

121 I have done judgment and justice: leave 
me not to mine oppressors. 

122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let 
not the proud oppress me. 

123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for 
the word of thy righteousness. 



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124 Deal with thy servant according unto 
thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes. 

125 I am thy servant; give me understand- 
ing, that I may know thy testimonies. 

126 It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for 
they have made void thy law. 

127 Therefore I love thy commandments 
above gold; yea, above fine gold. 

128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts con- 
cerning all things to be right; and I hate every 
false way. 

Pe 

129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore 
doth my soul keep them. 

130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; 
it giveth understanding unto the simple. 

131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I 
longed for thy commandments. 

132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful 
unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that 
love thy name. 

133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not 
any iniquity have dominion over me. 

134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: 
so will I keep thy precepts. 

135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; 
and teach me thy statutes. 

136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, 
because they keep not thy law. 

Tzaddi 

137 Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright 
are thy judgments. 

138 Thy testimonies that thou hast com- 
manded are righteous and very faithful. 

139 My zeal hath consumed me, because 
mine enemies have forgotten thy words. 

140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy 
servant loveth it. 



THE PSALTER 



141 I am small and despised: yet do not I 
forget thy precepts. 

142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting 
righteousness, and thy law is the truth. 

143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold 
on me: yet thy commandments are my de- 
lights. 

144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is 
everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall 
live. 

Twenty-Sixth Day. Evening. 
Koph 

145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, 
O Lord: I will keep thy statutes. 

146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall 
keep thy testimonies. 

147 I prevented the dawning of the morn- 
ing, and cried: I hoped in thy word. 

148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, 
that I might meditate in thy word. 

149 Hear my voice according unto thy lov- 
ingkindness: O Lord, quicken me according 
to thy judgment. 

150 They draw nigh that follow after mis- 
chief: they are far from thy law. 

151 Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy 
commandments are truth. 

152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have 
known of old that thou hast founded them 
for ever. _ , 

Resh 

153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: 
for I do not forget thy law. 

154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken 
me according to thy word. 

155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for 
they seek not thy statutes. 

156 Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: 
quicken me according to thy judgments. 



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157 Many are my persecutors and mine ene- 
mies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. 

158 I beheld the transgressors, and was 
grieved; because they kept not thy word. 

159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quick- 
en me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkind- 
ness. 

160 Thy word is true from the beginning: 
and every one of thy righteous judgments en- 
dureth for ever. 

Schin 

161 Princes have persecuted me without a 
cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy 
word. 

162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth 
great spoil. 

163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do 
I love. 

164 Seven times a day do I praise thee, 
because of thy righteous judgments. 

165 Great peace have they which love thy 
law: and nothing shall offend them. 

166 Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, 
and done thy commandments. 

167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and 
I love them exceedingly. 

168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testi- 
monies: for all my ways are before thee. 

Tau 

169 Let my cry come near before thee, O 
Lord: give me understanding according to thy 
word. 

170 Let my supplication come before thee: 
deliver me according to thy word. 

171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou 
hast taught me thy statutes. 

172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for 
all thy commandments are righteousness. 



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173 Let thine hand help me; for I have 
chosen thy precepts. 

174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; 
and thy law is my delight. 

175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise 
thee; and let thy judgments help me. 

176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep: 
seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy com- 
mandments. 

Twenty-Seventh Day. Morning. 

PSALM 120 

|N my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he 
■*■ heard me. 

2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, 
and from a deceitful tongue. 

3 What shall be given unto thee? or what 
shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? 

4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of 
juniper. 

5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that 
I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 

6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that 
hateth peace. 

7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they 
are for war. 

PSALM 121 

T will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from 
■*■ whence cometh my help. 

2 My help cometh from the Lord, which 
made heaven and earth. 

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: 
he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither 
slumber nor sleep. 

5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy 
shade upon thy right hand. 



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6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor 
the moon by night. 

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: 
he shall preserve thy soul. 

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out 
and thy coming in from this time forth, and 
even for evermore. 

PSALM 122 

T was glad when they said unto me, Let us 
■*■ go into the house of the Lord. 

2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O 
Jerusalem. 

3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is com- 
pact together: 

4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the 
Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give 
thanks unto the name of the Lord. 

5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the 
thrones of the house of David. 

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall 
prosper that love thee. 

7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity 
within thy palaces. 

8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I 
will now say, Peace be within thee. 

9 Because of the house of the Lord our God 
I will seek thy good. 

PSALM 123 

UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that 
dwellest in the heavens. 
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto 
the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a 
maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our 
eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that 
he have mercy upon us. 



THE PSALTER 



3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy 
upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with 
contempt. 

4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the 
scorning of those that are at ease, and with 
the contempt of the proud. 

PSALM 124 

|F it had not been the Lord who was on our 
-*- side, now may Israel say; 

2 If it had not been the Lord who was on 
our side, when men rose up against us: 

3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, 
when their wrath was kindled against us: 

4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the 
stream had gone over our soul: 

5 Then the proud waters had gone over our 
soul. 

6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given 
us as a prey to their teeth. 

7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the 
snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and 
we are escaped. 

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who 
made heaven and earth. 

PSALM 125 

HP HEY that trust in the Lord shall be as 
* mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but 
abideth for ever. 

2 As the mountains are round about Jeru- 
salem, so the Lord is round about his people 
from henceforth even for ever. 

3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest 
upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous 
put forth their hands unto iniquity. 



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4 Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, 
and to them that are upright in their hearts. 

5 As for such as turn aside unto their crook- 
ed ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the 
workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon 
Israel. 



Twenty-Seventh Day. Evening. 

PSALM 126 

WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity 
of Zion, we were like them that dream. 

2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter. 
and our tongue with singing: then said they 
among the heathen, The Lord hath done great 
things for them. 

3 The Lord hath done great things for us; 
whereof we are glad. 

4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the 
streams in the south. 

5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 

6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing 
precious seed, shall doubtless come again with 
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. 

PSALM 127 

"pXCEPT the Lord build the house, they 
■*-' labour in vain that build it: except the 
Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but 
in vain. 

2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit 
up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he 
giveth his beloved sleep. 

3 Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord: 
and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 

4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty 
man; so are children of the youth. 

5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver 
full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but 
they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. 



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PSALM 128 

"DLESSED is every one that feareth the Lord; 
*-* that walketh in his ways. 

2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine 
hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be 
well with thee. 

3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the 
sides of thine house: thy children like olive 
plants round about thy table. 

4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed 
that feareth the Lord. 

5 The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: 
and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all 
the days of thy life. 

6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, 
and peace upon Israel. 

PSALM 129 

"JV/TANY a time have they afflicted me from 
*yi. my youth, may Israel now say: 

2 Many a time have they afflicted me from 
my youth: yet they have not prevailed against 
me. 

3 The ploughers ploughed upon my back: 
they made long their furrows. 

4 The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder 
the cords of the wicked. 

5 Let them all be confounded and turned 
back that hate Zion. 

6 Let them be as the grass upon the house- 
tops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 

7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; 
nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 

8 Neither do they which go by say, The 
blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless 
you in the name of the Lord, 



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PSALM 130 

OUT of the depths have I cried unto thee, 
O Lord. 

2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be 
attentive to the voice of my supplications. 

3 If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O 
Lord, who shall stand? 

4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that 
thou mayest be feared. 

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait 
and in his word do I hope. 

6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than 
they that watch for the morning: I say, more 
than they that watch for the morning. 

7 Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the 
Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous 
redemption. 

8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his 
iniquities. 

PSALM 131 

T ORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine 
■*-* eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself 
in great matters, or in things too high for me. 

2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, 
as a child that is weaned of his mother: my 
soul is even as a weaned child. 

3 Let Israel hope in the Lord from hence- 
forth and for ever. 

Twenty-Eighth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 132 

j ORD, remember David, and all his afflic- 
-*-' tions: 

2 How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed 
unto the mighty God of Jacob; 

3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle 
of my house, nor go up into my bed; 



THE PSALTER 



4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or 
slumber to mine eyelids, 

5 Until I find out a place for the Lord, a 
habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. 

6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found 
it in the fields of the wood. 

7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will 
worship at his footstool. 

8 Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and 
the ark of thy strength. 

9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteous- 
ness; and let thy saints shout for joy. 

10 For thy servant David's sake turn not 
away the face of thine anointed. 

11 The Lord hath sworn in truth unto 
David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit 
of thy body will I set upon thy throne. 

12 If thy children will keep my covenant and 
my testimony that I shall teach them, their chil- 
dren shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore. 

13 For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath 
desired it for his habitation. 

14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; 
for I have desired it. 

15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I 
will satisfy her poor with bread. 

16 I will also clothe her priests with salva- 
tion: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. 

17 There will I make the horn of David to 
bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. 

18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: 
but upon himself shall his crown flourish. 

PSALM 133 

|-<EHOLD, how good and how pleasant it is 
for brethren to dwell together in unity! 
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the 
head, that ran down upon the beard, even 



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Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts 
of his garments; 

3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that 
descended upon the mountains of Zion: for 
there the Lord commanded the blessing, even 
life for evermore. 

PSALM 134 

TOEHOLD, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants 
■*-' of the Lord, which by night stand in the 
house of the Lord. 

2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and 
bless the Lord. 

3 The Lord that made heaven and earth 
bless thee out of Zion. 

PSALM 135 

T3 RAISE ye the Lord. Praise ye the name 
-*■ of the Lord; praise him, O ye servants of 
the Lord. 

2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, 
in the courts of the house of our God, 

3 Praise the Lord; for the Lord is good: 
sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant. 

4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto him- 
self, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. 

5 P A or I know that the Lord is great, and 
that our Lord is above all gods. 

6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he 
in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all 
deep places. 

7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the 
ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the 
rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries. 

8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both 
of man and beast. 

9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the 
midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and 
upon all his servants. 



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10 Who smote great nations, and slew 
mighty kings; 

11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king 
of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan: 

12 And gave their land for a heritage, a 
heritage unto Israel his people. 

13 Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; 
and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all 
generations. 

14 For the Lord will judge his people, and 
he will repent himself concerning his servants. 

15 The idols of the heathen are silver and 
gold, the work of men's hands. 

16 They have mouths, but they speak not; 
eyes have they, but they see not; 

17 They have ears, but they hear not; 
neither is there any breath in their mouths. 

18 They that make them are like unto them: 
so is every one that trusteth in them. 

19 Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless 
the Lord, O house of Aaron: 

20 Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: ye that 
fear the Lord, bless the Lord. 

21 Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, which 
dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord. 



Twenty-Eighth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 136 

fj give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: 
^S for his mercy endureth for ever. 

2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for 
his mercy endureth for ever. 

3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for 
his mercy endureth for ever. 

4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: 
for his mercy endureth for ever. 

5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: 
for his mercy endureth for ever. 



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6 To him that stretched out the earth above 
the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

7 To him that made great lights: for his 
mercy endureth for ever: 

8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy 
endureth for ever: 

9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for 
his mercy endureth for ever. 

10 To him that smote Egypt in their first- 
born: for his mercy endureth for ever: 

11 And brought out Israel from among them: 
for his mercy endureth for ever: . 

12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched 
out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

13 To him which divided the Red Sea into 
parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: 

14 And made Israel to pass through the 
midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: 

15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in 
the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

16 To him which led his people through the 
wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

17 To him which smote great kings: for his 
mercy endureth for ever: 

18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy 
endureth for ever: 

19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy 
endureth for ever: 

20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy 
endureth for ever: 

21 And gave their land for a heritage: for 
his mercy endureth for ever: 

22 Even a heritage unto Israel his servant: 
for his mercy endureth for ever. 

23 Who remembered us in our low estate: 
for his mercy endureth for ever. 

24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: 
for his mercy endureth for ever. 






THE PSALTER 



25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his 
mercy endureth for ever. 

26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: 
for his mercy endureth for ever. 

PSALM 137 

T^Y the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, 
-■-' yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. 

2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in 
the midst thereof. 

3 For there they that carried us away captive 
required of us a song; and they that wasted us 
required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of 
the songs of Zion. 

4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a 
strange land? 

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right 
hand forget her cunning. 

6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue 
cleave to the roof of my mouth; if 1 prefer not 
Jerusalem above my chief joy. 

7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom 
in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, 
rase it, even to the foundation thereof. 

8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be 
destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth 
thee as thou hast served us. 

9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth 
thy little ones against the stones. 

PSALM 138 

T will praise thee with my whole heart: be- 
■*• fore the gods will I sing praise unto thee. 

2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and 
praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for 
thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word 
above all thy name. 



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3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst 
me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my 
soul. 

4 All the kings of the earth shall praise 
thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of 
thy mouth. 

5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the 
Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord. 

6 Though the Lord be high, yet hath he 
respect unto the lowly: but the proud he know- 
eth afar off. 

7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, 
thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth 
thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, 
and thy right hand shall save me. 

8 The Lord will perfect that which concern- 
eth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: 
forsake not the works of thine own hands. 

Twenty-Ninth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 139 

OLord, thou hast searched me, and known 
me. 

2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine 
uprising; thou understandest my thought afar 
off. 

3 Thou compassest my path and my lying 
down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 

4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, 
lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. 

5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and 
laid thine hand upon me. 

6 Such' knowledge is too wonderful for me; 
it is high, I cannot attain unto it. 

7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or 
whither shall I flee from thy presence? 

8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: 
if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art 
there. 



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9 If I take the wings of the morning, and 
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 

10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and 
thy right hand shall hold me. 

11 If I say, Surely the darkness will cover 
me; even the night shall be light about me. 

12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; 
but the night shineth as the day: the darkness 
and the light are both alike to thee. 

13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou 
hast covered me in my mothers womb. 

14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and 
wonderfully made: marvellous are th}'- works; 
and that my soul knoweth right well. 

15 My substance was not hid from thee, 
when I was made in secret, and curiously 
wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 

16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet 
being unperfect; and in thy book all my mem- 
bers were written, which in continuance were 
fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 

17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto 
me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 

18 If I should count them, they are more 
in number than the sand: when I awake, I am 
still with thee. 

19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: 
depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. 

20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and 
thine enemies take thy name in vain. 

21 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate 
thee? and am not I grieved with those that 
rise up against thee? 

22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count 
them mine enemies. 

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: 
try me, and know my thoughts: 

24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, 
and lead me in the way everlasting. 



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PSALM 140 

DELIVER me, O Lord, from the evil man: 
preserve me from the violent man; 

2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; 
continually are they gathered together for war. 

3 They have sharpened their tongues like a 
serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. 
Selah. 

4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the 
wicked; preserve me from the violent man; 
who have purposed to overthrow my goings. 

5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and 
cords; they have spread a net by the way side; 
they have set gins for me. Selah. 

6 I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: 
hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord. 

7 O God the Lord, the strength of my salva- 
tion, thou hast covered my head in the day of 
battle. 

8 Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the 
wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they 
exalt themselves. Selah. 

9 As for the head of those that compass me 
about, let the mischief of their own lips cover 
them. 

10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let 
them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that 
they rise not up again. 

11 Let not an evil speaker be established in 
the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to 
overthrow him. 

12 I know that the Lord will maintain the 
cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor. 

13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks 
unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy 
presence. 



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Twenty-Ninth Day. Evening. 
PSALM 141 

LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; 
give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto 
thee. 

2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as 
incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the 
evening sacrifice. 

3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; 
keep the door of my lips. 

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to 
practise wicked works with men that work 
iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. 

5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a 
kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be 
an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: 
for yet my prayer also shall be in their cal- 
amities. 

6 When their judges are overthrown in stony 
places, they shall hear my words; for they are 
sweet. 

7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's 
mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood 
upon the earth. 

8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the 
Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul 
destitute. 

9 Keep me from the snares which they have 
laid for me, and the gins of the workers of 
iniquity. 

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, 
whilst that I withal escape. 

PSALM 142 

I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with • 
my voice unto the Lord did I make my 
supplication. 

2 I poured out my complaint before him; I 
shewed before him my trouble. 



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3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within 
me, then thou knewest my path. In the way 
wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare 
for me. 

4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, 
but there was no man that would know me: 
refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. 

5 I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou 
art my refuge and my portion in the land of 
the living. 

6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very 
low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they 
are stronger than I. 

7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may 
praise thy name: the righteous shall compass 
me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with 
me. 

Thirtieth Day. Morning. 

PSALM 143 

XT EAR my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my 
-■--*• supplications: in thy faithfulness answer 
me, and in thy righteousness. 

2 And enter not into judgment with thy 
servant: for in thy sight shall no man living 
be justified. 

3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; 
he hath smitten my life down to the ground; 
he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those 
that have been long dead. 

4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within 
me; my heart within me is desolate. 

5 I remember the days of old; I meditate 
on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy 
hands. 

6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my 
soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. 
Selah. 



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7 Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit fail- 
eth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like 
unto them that go down into the pit. 

8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in 
the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me 
to know the way wherein I should walk; for 
I lift up my soul unto thee. 

9 Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: 
I flee unto thee to hide me. 

10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art 
my God: thy Spirit is good; lead me into the 
land of uprightness. 

11 Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake: 
for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out 
of trouble. 

12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, 
and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for 
I am thy servant. 

PSALM 144 

"DLESSED be the Lord my strength, which 
*-* teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers 
to fight: 

2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high 
tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in 
whom I trust; who subdueth my people under 
me. 

3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowl- 
edge of him! or the son of man, that thou 
makest account of him! 

4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a 
shadow that passeth away. 

5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and comedown: 
touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: 
shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. 

7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and 
deliver me out of great waters, from the hand 
of strange children; 



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8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their 
right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 

9 1 will sing a new song unto thee, O God: 
upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten 
strings will I sing praises unto thee. 

10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: 
who delivereth David his servant from the 
hurtful sword. 

11 Rid me ; and deliver me from the hand of 
strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, 
and their right hand is a right hand of false- 
hood: 

12 That our sons may be as plants grown 
up in their youth; that our daughters may be 
as corner stones, polished after the similitude 
of a palace: 

13 That our garners may be full, affording 
all manner of store; that our sheep may bring 
forth thousands and ten thousands in our 
streets: 

14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; 
that there be no breaking in, nor going out; 
that there be no complaining in our streets. 

15 Happy is that people, that is in such a 
case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is 
the Lord. 

Thirtieth Day. Evening. 

PSALM 145 
T will extol thee, my God, O King; and I will 
■*■ bless thy name for ever and ever. 

2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will 
praise thy name for ever and ever. 

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be 
praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. 

4 One generation shall praise thy works to 
another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. 

5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy 
majesty, and of thy wondrous works. 



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6 And men shall speak of the might of thy 
terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. 

7 They shall abundantly utter the memory 
of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy 
righteousness. 

8 The Lord is gracious, and full of compas- 
sion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. 

9 The Lord is good to all: and his tender 
mercies are over all his works. 

10 All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; 
and thy saints shall bless thee. 

11 They shall speak of the glory of thy 
kingdom, and talk of thy power; 

12 To make known to the sons of men his 
mighty? acts, and the glorious majesty of his 
kingdom. 

13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
and thy dominion endureth throughout all gen- 
erations. 

14 The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and 
raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 

15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou 
givest them their meat in due season.- 

16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest 
'the desire of every living thing. 

17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways, 
and holy in all his works. 

18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call 
upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 

19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear 
him: he also will hear their cry, and will save 
them. 

20 The Lord preserveth all them that love 
him: but all the wicked will he destroy. 

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the 
Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name 
for ever and ever. 



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PSALM 146 

PRAISE ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O 
• my soul. 

2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I will 
sing praises unto my God while I have any 
being-. 

3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the 
son of man, in whom there is no help. 

4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his 
earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 

5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for 
his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: 

6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, 
and all that therein is: which keepeth truth 
for ever: 

7 Which executeth judgment for the op- 
pressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The 
Lord looseth the prisoners: 

8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: 
the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: 
the Lord loveth the righteous: 

9 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he 
relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the 
way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 

10 The Lord shall rein for ever, even thy • 
God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye 
the Lord. 

Thirty-First Day. Morning. 

PSALM 147 

P RAISE ye the Lord: for it is good to sing 
- 1 - praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; 
and praise is comely. 

2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he 
gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. 

3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bind- 
eth up their wounds. 



THE PSALTER 445 

4 He telleth the number of the stars; he 
calleth them all by their names. 

5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: 
his understanding is infinite. 

6 The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth 
the wicked down to the ground. 

7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; 
sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 

8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who 
prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass 
to grow upon the mountains. 

9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to 
the young ravens which cry. 

10 He delighteth not in the strength of the 
horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a 
man. 

11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that 
fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. 

12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy 
God, O Zion. 

13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy 
gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. 

14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and 
filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. 

15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon 
earth: his word runneth very swiftly. 

16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth 
the hoar frost like ashes. 

17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who 
can stand before his cold? 

18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth 
them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the 
waters flow. 

19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his 
statutes and his judgments unto Israel. 

20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: 
and as for his judgments, they have not known 
them. Praise ye the Lord. 



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PSALM 148 

T-) RAISE ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord 
■■- from the heavens: praise him in the heights. 

2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye 
him, all his hosts. 

3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, 
all ye stars of light. 

4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and 
ye waters that be above the heavens. 

5 Let them praise the name of the Lord: 
for he commanded, and they were created. 

6 He hath also stablished them for ever and 
ever: he hath made a decree which shall not 
pass. 

7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, 
and all deeps: 

8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy 
wind fulfilling his word: 

9 Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and 
all cedars: 

10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, 
and flying fowl: 

11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, 
and all judges of the earth: 

12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, 
and children: 

13 Let them praise the name of the Lord: 
for his name alone is excellent; his glory is 
above the earth and heaven. 

14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, 
the praise of all his saints; even of the children 
of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye 
the Lord. 



THE PSALTER 



Thirty-First Day. Evening. 

PSALM 149 

PRAISE ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord 
a new song, and his praise in the congre- 
gation of saints. 

2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: 
let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. 

3 Let them praise his name in the dance: 
let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel 
and harp. 

4 For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: 
he will beautify the meek with salvation. 

5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them 
sing aloud upon their beds. 

6 Let the high praises of God be in their 
mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 

7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, 
and punishments upon the people; 

8 To bind their kings with chains, and their 
nobles with fetters of iron; 

9 To execute upon them the judgment writ- 
ten: this honour have ali his saints. Praise 
ye the Lord. 

PSALM 150 
PRAISE ye the Lord. Praise God in his 
■*■ sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of 
his power. 

2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him 
according to his excellent greatness. 

3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: 
praise him with the psaltery and harp. 

4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: 
praise him with stringed instruments and 
organs. 

5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise 
him upon the high sounding cymbals. 

6 Let every thing that hath breath praise 
the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. 



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